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Subject: Re: [virtio] [PATCH 4/5] packed-ring: reposition drivernormative on driver notifications
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:59:12PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote: > My concern (regarding the whole spec) is the completeness and self > the containment of it's normative portion -- I'm not sure if either is > pursued rigorously. No it isn't, and the reason is we do not want to bring the development to a complete halt :). Our charter is Enhancing the performance of virtual devices by standardizing key features of the VIRTIO (Virtual I/O) Device Specification Our job is thus to facilitate development by standardizing where it's helpful. If we start asking people to write out a formal spec for any tiny change before they can release code, development will stop and performance will suffer. And it's a balance: it should be clear what is going on, and if people can write it rigorously without confusing matters, it is helpful. But we don't want something like e.g. the C or C++ language spec, where you can read all of it and still have no idea how to use it. > For instance take 'Supplying Buffers to The > Device' either for split or for packed. The algorithms described > there aren't constituting a normative section. Do you think these > can be inferred from the normative sections? No but it's ok for normative sections to refer to the non-normative ones. -- MST
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