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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio scsi host draft specification, v2
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:29:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE668D5.7050600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE667DE.702@redhat.com>

On 06/01/2011 07:25 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 03:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> Virtqueues
>>>      0:control transmitq
>>>      1:control receiveq
>>>      2:requestq
>>>
>>
>> Shouldn't we plan multiqueue for this from day 1?
>
> How would you do multiqueue?  Just provide N queues, and the device 
> can place requests for any LUN on any queue?

Yes.

> If that's correct, it doesn't sound too hard to do, but also doesn't 
> sound problematic to fit it later.  So I'm quite ambivalent

Since it's easy, why not?  Reducing feature bit proliferation means 
easier testing.

>>
>> flags? room for growth?
>
> Feature bits can be used to negotiate the exact format of the request. 
> I don't expect many changes, since we're closely mimicking the SCSI 
> requests.

Ok.  If we're following a standard we should be safe.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-20  8:21 [Qemu-devel] virtio scsi host draft specification, v2 Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-28 19:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-30  9:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-01  4:44     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-01  8:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-01 11:59   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-01 12:51     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-01 13:31       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-01 14:36         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-01 14:51           ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-02 10:42             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-02 11:42               ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-02 11:56                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-02 12:18                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-01 15:59           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-02 11:41             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-02 12:02               ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-02 12:54                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-01 13:46 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-01 16:25   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-01 16:29     ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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