From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
"pv-drivers@vmware.com" <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
"Chetan.Loke@Emulex.Com" <Chetan.Loke@Emulex.Com>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>,
Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>,
Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:45:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD4AEAA.2080209@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255444557.2855.95.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 10/13/09 07:35, James Bottomley wrote:
>> Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called
>> vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks.
>>
> I'm still curious to know what the 'p' in the name stands for. Surely
> this is a fully virtual driver, not a paravirtual one?
>
I would assume that "pv" does stand for paravirtual. The terminology is
a bit screwy: "fully virtualized" means that the device looks like a
real hardware device that is being emulated. "Paravirtualized" means
that it is a completely virtual device which isn't an emulation of
anything; the guests know this this and talk to it accordingly.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 18:53 SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5 Alok Kataria
2009-09-30 18:56 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-02 0:47 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-02 1:43 ` James Bottomley
2009-10-02 4:37 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-06 0:30 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 5:37 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-13 21:28 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 22:00 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-13 22:13 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 21:51 ` SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V6 Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 21:51 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 23:41 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-13 23:41 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-28 20:28 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 14:35 ` SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5 James Bottomley
2009-10-13 14:35 ` James Bottomley
2009-10-13 16:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-10-13 17:18 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 17:18 ` Alok Kataria
2009-10-13 16:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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