Re: [Qemu-devel] Queries on dataplane mechanism

2016-07-15 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 02:36:41PM +0530, Gaurav Sharma wrote: > I am working on something to move PCI devices to data plane architecture. > Do you know any know reasons, as to why this was not tried before ? The dataplane approach is implemented on a per-device basis because it involves registeri

Re: [Qemu-devel] Queries on dataplane mechanism

2016-06-28 Thread Gaurav Sharma
Hi Stefan, I am working on something to move PCI devices to data plane architecture. Do you know any know reasons, as to why this was not tried before ? Regards, On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:56:34PM +0530, Gaurav Sharma wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Queries on dataplane mechanism

2016-06-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:56:34PM +0530, Gaurav Sharma wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to explore how the data plane mechanism works in QEMU. I > understand the behavior of QEMU big lock. Can someone clarify the following > w.r.t. to data plane : > > 1. Currently only virtio-blk-pci and virtio-scsi-pc

[Qemu-devel] Queries on dataplane mechanism

2016-06-23 Thread Gaurav Sharma
Hi, I am trying to explore how the data plane mechanism works in QEMU. I understand the behavior of QEMU big lock. Can someone clarify the following w.r.t. to data plane : 1. Currently only virtio-blk-pci and virtio-scsi-pci have data plane enabled ? 2. From qemu 2.1.0 data plane is enabled by de