From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-4901-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404E1985E9B for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:40:56 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20181018192837-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180920220951-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180927121739-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20181002083928-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20181005101419-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH v4] content: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature To: Siwei Liu Cc: Venu Busireddy , Cornelia Huck , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , virtio-dev , liran.alon@oracle.com List-ID: On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 04:20:13PM -0700, Siwei Liu wrote: > To be honest, I don't understand why there's resistance of using PV to > initiate datapath switching, I see no resistance. I see lack of man-power. Any extension needs: 1- guest driver support 2- qemu support 3- spec documentation Current scheme has (1) by now, a beginning of (3) and a rudimentary prototype of (2). For your proposed extension, you can either do some of this work, or do some testing to demonstrate problems and motivate others. So far emailing list about theoretical issues did not seem to motivate anyone. -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org