From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:37:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4423F60B.6020805@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4423E853.1040707@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of
> host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already
> present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device
> infrastructure.
Another benefit of SCSI: when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel
switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt
disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-24 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-22 16:52 [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver Ian Pratt
2006-03-22 16:52 ` Ian Pratt
2006-03-22 17:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-22 17:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-22 23:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24 12:17 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-24 12:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24 13:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-03-24 13:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24 13:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24 15:33 ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-03-24 19:04 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-24 19:04 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-24 19:19 ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-03-25 0:32 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2006-03-25 0:47 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-25 0:47 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-24 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-24 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-25 10:03 ` Rusty Russell
2006-03-25 10:03 ` Rusty Russell
2006-03-27 10:14 ` Peter Chubb
2006-03-23 8:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23 9:34 ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-23 9:34 ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-23 9:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23 9:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-09 8:49 [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support Chris Wright
2006-05-09 7:00 ` [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver Chris Wright
2006-05-09 12:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-22 6:30 [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support Chris Wright
2006-03-22 6:31 ` [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver Chris Wright
2006-03-22 16:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-22 16:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-27 8:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-27 8:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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