From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:18:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121030161807.GA9709@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030154801.GC14167@kroah.com>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:07:44PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:19:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:03:28PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> > > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1
> > > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 2
> > > > drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Kconfig | 16
> > > > drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Makefile | 43
> > >
> > > Meta comment here, why drivers/misc/? The other hypervisor
> > > infrastructures all have their own directory under drivers/ Should we
> > > be moving everything to drivers/hyperv/ somehow?
> >
> > drivers/hyperv is not the best name for obvious reasons...
>
> Sorry, yes :)
:)
>
> > I think that even if we had a special directory for vmci having network
> > drivers in Dave's realm and pvscsi in James's is best option, so the new
> > directory would contain vmci and the balloon driver (vsock will go into
> > net/). Given that balloon is already in drivers/misc it looked like
> > obvious place for VMCI as well.
>
> I agree that the individual drivers should go in the subsystem area,
> it's this "hypervisor bus core" type code that I'm questioning. Right
> now every hypervisor is putting that logic in a different place in the
> kernel, having some consistency here would be nice.
Hmm, I wonder if miscellaneous and core hypervisor drivers should end
up in drivers/platform:
drivers/platform/hyperv
drivers/platform/olpc
drivers/platform/vmware
drivers/platform/xen
drivers/platform/x86
But really we'd like to get VMCI into mainline first and move to a new
place later if such a better place is found.
Thanks,
Dmitry
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>,
pv-drivers@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:18:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121030161807.GA9709@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030154801.GC14167@kroah.com>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:07:44PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:19:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:03:28PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> > > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1
> > > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 2
> > > > drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Kconfig | 16
> > > > drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Makefile | 43
> > >
> > > Meta comment here, why drivers/misc/? The other hypervisor
> > > infrastructures all have their own directory under drivers/ Should we
> > > be moving everything to drivers/hyperv/ somehow?
> >
> > drivers/hyperv is not the best name for obvious reasons...
>
> Sorry, yes :)
:)
>
> > I think that even if we had a special directory for vmci having network
> > drivers in Dave's realm and pvscsi in James's is best option, so the new
> > directory would contain vmci and the balloon driver (vsock will go into
> > net/). Given that balloon is already in drivers/misc it looked like
> > obvious place for VMCI as well.
>
> I agree that the individual drivers should go in the subsystem area,
> it's this "hypervisor bus core" type code that I'm questioning. Right
> now every hypervisor is putting that logic in a different place in the
> kernel, having some consistency here would be nice.
Hmm, I wonder if miscellaneous and core hypervisor drivers should end
up in drivers/platform:
drivers/platform/hyperv
drivers/platform/olpc
drivers/platform/vmware
drivers/platform/xen
drivers/platform/x86
But really we'd like to get VMCI into mainline first and move to a new
place later if such a better place is found.
Thanks,
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 1:03 [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:03 ` [PATCH 01/12] VMCI: context implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:07 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:07 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:10 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:10 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:01 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 4:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:46 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:46 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 1:03 ` [PATCH 02/12] VMCI: datagram implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 03/12] VMCI: doorbell implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 04/12] VMCI: device driver implementaton George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:21 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:21 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:23 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:23 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:15 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 4:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:49 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:49 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 05/12] VMCI: event handling implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:24 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:24 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:58 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 4:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:26 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:26 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:01 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 5:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 06/12] VMCI: handle array implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 07/12] VMCI: queue pairs implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 08/12] VMCI: resource object implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:29 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:29 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:20 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 5:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:51 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:51 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 16:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 16:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 2:29 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:29 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:21 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 5:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 1:04 ` George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 09/12] VMCI: routing implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 10/12] VMCI: guest side driver implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 11/12] VMCI: host " George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:32 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:32 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:22 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 5:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 2:38 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:38 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:19 ` [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:19 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:07 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 4:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:48 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:48 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 16:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2012-10-30 16:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 16:27 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 16:27 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 19:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 19:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 19:59 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 19:59 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-21 20:31 George Zhang
2012-11-26 22:37 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:01 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:23 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:23 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:44 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:44 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:56 ` George Zhang
2012-11-26 23:56 ` George Zhang
2012-11-27 0:03 ` Greg KH
2012-11-27 0:27 ` Woody Suwalski
2012-11-27 0:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-27 0:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-27 0:27 ` Woody Suwalski
2012-11-27 0:03 ` Greg KH
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