Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] virtio_ring: make structure defines packed

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Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2008 schrieb ron minnich:
> The problem for me is that gcc packed is not compatible with the plan
> 9 C compiler. So, for a truly heterogeneous setup, you are going to
> have
> to have code to marshall the structures when transferring between
> domains, and you are better off not trying to fake it with packed --
> it can actually make the
> marshalling less efficient.

Ok, I am conviced. The packed idea came up for mixed platform setups, but 
you are right - this reuqires much more.

Christian
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