Re: Virtio-net - add timeouts to control commands

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> Quite the contrary.
> There is no guarantee that a completion for a given command will be
> signaled at all; if the completion is never posted to the virtio queue
> the VM will spin forever.
>
> This is a simplistic approach. _Any_ command sent via virtio will have
> to have some sort of handling in the host, so an immediate response is
> not guaranteed.
> Especially virtio-block command will _not_ be handled immediately.


I'm referring to virtnet control commands.
virtnet_send_command is a blocking function, and returns once a
response is received for the sent control command.
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