From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Stefan Haynoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] megasas: LSI Megaraid SAS emulation
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:26:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E116B32.702@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E115EFD.7020607@redhat.com>
On 07/04/2011 08:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/04/2011 08:13 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 07/03/2011 04:36 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 07/02/2011 03:50 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> (And no, I will not getting into another dog-fight with Paul B.
>>>> here.
>>>> Virtio can do without bounce buffers. AHCI can. So I fail to see
>>>> why
>>>> SCSI has to rely on bounce buffers.)
>>>
>>> I agree, but I do see why a SCSI device might prefer to rely on
>>> bounce buffers for non-I/O commands. This is why in my last RFC
>>> series for vmw_pvscsi I let the device choose whether to force a
>>> bounce buffer or get an external iovec from the HBA.
>>>
>> Yes, sure, for non-I/O commands it's perfectly okay.
>> Most of which will be emulated anyway.
>> It's bounce buffers for I/O which kills performance.
>>
>> But I seem to have missed your last RFC (I'm not reading
>> qemu-devel on a
>> regular basis ...).
>> Care to send me a pointer to it?
>
> Sure,
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-06/msg00668.html
>
Cool.
Exactly what I need.
FWIW, feel free to add my 'Acked-by' to it.
Any chance of getting them included?
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Stefan Haynoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] megasas: LSI Megaraid SAS emulation
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:26:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E116B32.702@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E115EFD.7020607@redhat.com>
On 07/04/2011 08:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/04/2011 08:13 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 07/03/2011 04:36 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 07/02/2011 03:50 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> (And no, I will not getting into another dog-fight with Paul B.
>>>> here.
>>>> Virtio can do without bounce buffers. AHCI can. So I fail to see
>>>> why
>>>> SCSI has to rely on bounce buffers.)
>>>
>>> I agree, but I do see why a SCSI device might prefer to rely on
>>> bounce buffers for non-I/O commands. This is why in my last RFC
>>> series for vmw_pvscsi I let the device choose whether to force a
>>> bounce buffer or get an external iovec from the HBA.
>>>
>> Yes, sure, for non-I/O commands it's perfectly okay.
>> Most of which will be emulated anyway.
>> It's bounce buffers for I/O which kills performance.
>>
>> But I seem to have missed your last RFC (I'm not reading
>> qemu-devel on a
>> regular basis ...).
>> Care to send me a pointer to it?
>
> Sure,
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-06/msg00668.html
>
Cool.
Exactly what I need.
FWIW, feel free to add my 'Acked-by' to it.
Any chance of getting them included?
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 15:35 [PATCH 0/3] [v5] Megasas HBA Emulation Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] iov: Update parameter usage in iov_(to|from)_buf() Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: Add 'hba_private' to SCSIRequest Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] megasas: LSI Megaraid SAS emulation Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 16:42 ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-01 16:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2011-07-02 13:50 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-02 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-02 12:28 ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-02 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2011-07-03 14:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-03 14:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-04 6:13 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-04 6:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-04 6:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-04 6:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-04 7:26 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2011-07-04 7:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-04 10:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-04 10:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-04 12:52 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-04 12:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-04 12:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-04 12:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-02 16:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-02 16:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-04 8:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-04 8:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: Add 'hba_private' to SCSIRequest Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-01 15:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-01 16:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] iov: Update parameter usage in iov_(to|from)_buf() Alexander Graf
2011-07-01 16:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-01 7:42 [PATCH 0/3] [v4] Megasas HBA emulation Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 7:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] iov: Add 'offset' parameter to iov_to_buf() Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 7:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: replace 'tag' with 'hba_private' pointer Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 7:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] megasas: LSI Megaraid SAS emulation Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-01 9:16 ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-03 8:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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