From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: quintela@redhat.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
kraxel@redhat.com, amit.shah@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2 10/12] tap: add vhost/vhostfd options
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:41:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003022241.27803.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8D4350.6040506@codemonkey.ws>
> The new function I'm proposing has the following semantics:
>
> - it always returns a persistent mapping
> - it never bounces
> - it will only fail if the mapping isn't ram
So you're assuming that virtio rings are in ram that is not hot-pluggable or
remapable, and the whole region is contiguous?
That sounds like it's likely to come back and bite you. The guest has no idea
which areas of ram happen to be contiguous on the host.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 18:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 00/12] vhost-net: upstream integration Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 05/12] virtio: add APIs for queue fields Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:49 ` Blue Swirl
2010-02-26 14:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-02-26 8:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 09/12] vhost: vhost net support Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-02-26 14:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-26 14:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-26 14:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-26 14:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-26 15:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-27 19:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 1:59 ` Paul Brook
2010-02-28 10:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 12:45 ` Paul Brook
2010-02-28 14:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 15:23 ` Paul Brook
2010-02-28 15:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 16:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 02/12] kvm: add API to set ioeventfd Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 17:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 04/12] virtio: add notifier support Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 01/12] tap: add interface to get device fd Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 07/12] virtio: move typedef to qemu-common Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 10/12] tap: add vhost/vhostfd options Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-02-26 14:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-26 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-27 19:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 16:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-28 17:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 20:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-28 21:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-28 22:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-28 22:39 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-01 19:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-01 21:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 9:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-02 14:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 14:33 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-02 14:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 14:55 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-02 15:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 15:53 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-02 15:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-02 16:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 16:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-02 16:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-02 16:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 17:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-02 18:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-02 18:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 22:41 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-03-03 14:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-03 14:43 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-03 16:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 11/12] tap: add API to retrieve vhost net header Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 06/12] virtio: add set_status callback Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 08/12] virtio-pci: fill in notifier support Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-02-28 20:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 03/12] notifier: event notifier implementation Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-02-28 19:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 18:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 12/12] virtio-net: vhost net support Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2 00/12] vhost-net: upstream integration Anthony Liguori
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