From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
linux390@de.ibm.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio: Clean up scatterlists and use the DMA API
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:27:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140827172716.GA5379@laptop.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QUcXQ+JV0wys2Mr-+OsFKt=hTGbUxNqfpk-JuyULiQABQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 07:46:46AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > There are two outstanding issues. virtio_net warns if DMA debugging
> > is on because it does DMA from the stack. (The warning is correct.)
> > This also is likely to do something unpleasant to s390.
> > (Maintainers are cc'd -- I don't know what to do about it.)
>
> This changes the semantics of vring and breaks existing guests when
> bus address != physical address.
Isn't that what this is suppose to fix? Right now the semantics of the
vring is that bus address == physical address.
>
> Can you use a transport feature bit to indicate that bus addresses are
> used? That way both approaches can be supported.
>
> Please also update the virtio specification:
> https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/virtio/
>
> Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-27 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-26 21:16 [PATCH 0/3] virtio: Clean up scatterlists and use the DMA API Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-26 21:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] virtio_ring: Remove sg_next indirection Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-01 0:58 ` Rusty Russell
2014-09-01 1:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-01 6:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-01 17:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-26 21:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] virtio_ring: Use DMA APIs Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 7:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-08-27 17:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-27 17:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-26 21:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] virtio_pci: Use the DMA API for virtqueues Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 17:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-27 17:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 18:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-27 6:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] virtio: Clean up scatterlists and use the DMA API Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-27 15:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 15:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-27 15:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 16:13 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 16:13 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 16:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 16:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 17:34 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 17:34 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 17:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 17:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 17:50 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 17:50 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 20:52 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-08-27 17:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2014-08-27 18:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-27 18:58 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-27 7:54 ` Cornelia Huck
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