Re: [PATCHv2] virtio: order used ring after used index read

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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:58:53 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On SMP guests, reads from the ring might bypass
> used index reads. This causes guest crashes
> because host writes to used index to signal ring data
> readiness.
> Fix this by inserting rmb before used ring reads.

Thanks, good spotting.  Applied.

Rusty.
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