Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio network device

[Rusty Russell]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 09:02:48 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If QEMU ever got true SMP support, then virtio would not work as it
> requires 16-bit atomic writes which AFAIK is not possible on a number of
> non-x86 architectures.

Hmm?  Where is this requirement coming from?

I think everyone should stop using the word "atomic" in virtio discussions; 
it's confusing.

Rusty.