On 02/24/2010 09:13 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
to work on that if we can agree on what the underlying device looks
like whether it should be VirtIO or just PCI.
Agreed, you had suggested uio_pci for my PCI driver and I'd be happy
I feel pretty strongly that we shouldn't add shared memory to vir
On 02/24/2010 12:20 AM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Hi Cam,
On 02/23/2010 02:52 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
Support for passing memory regions via VirtIO to remove need for PCI
support in the guest.
Adds new vectors to VirtIO config spa
On 02/24/2010 05:14 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 02/24/2010 08:20 AM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
Virtio is really a DMA engine. One of the nice things about it's
design is
that you can do things like transparent bounce buffering if needed.
Adding
a mechanism like this breaks this abstract and turns v
On 02/24/2010 08:20 AM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
Virtio is really a DMA engine. One of the nice things about it's design is
that you can do things like transparent bounce buffering if needed. Adding
a mechanism like this breaks this abstract and turns virtio into something
that's more than I thin
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi Cam,
>
> On 02/23/2010 02:52 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
>>
>> Support for passing memory regions via VirtIO to remove need for PCI
>> support in the guest.
>>
>> Adds new vectors to VirtIO config space to pass memory regions similar
>> to
On 02/23/2010 03:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Hi Cam,
On 02/23/2010 02:52 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
Support for passing memory regions via VirtIO to remove need for PCI
support in the guest.
Adds new vectors to VirtIO config space to pass memory regions similar
to how virtqueues are passed.
K
Hi Cam,
On 02/23/2010 02:52 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
Support for passing memory regions via VirtIO to remove need for PCI
support in the guest.
Adds new vectors to VirtIO config space to pass memory regions similar
to how virtqueues are passed.
Kernel patch is forthcoming that add device_ops t
Support for passing memory regions via VirtIO to remove need for PCI
support in the guest.
Adds new vectors to VirtIO config space to pass memory regions similar
to how virtqueues are passed.
Kernel patch is forthcoming that add device_ops to access the memory regions.
I have used this mechanism
