From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takuya Yoshikawa Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] vhot-net: Use kvm_memslots instead of vhost_memory to translate GPA to HVA Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:05:50 +0900 Message-ID: <4EEAEDCE.3030109@oss.ntt.co.jp> References: <1324013528-3663-1-git-send-email-zanghongyong@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1324013528-3663-1-git-send-email-zanghongyong@huawei.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: zanghongyong@huawei.com Cc: wusongwei@huawei.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hanweidong@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, xiaowei.yang@huawei.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org (2011/12/16 14:32), zanghongyong@huawei.com wrote: > From: Hongyong Zang > > Vhost-net uses its own vhost_memory, which results from user space (qemu) info, > to translate GPA to HVA. Since kernel's kvm structure already maintains the > address relationship in its member *kvm_memslots*, these patches use kernel's > kvm_memslots directly without the need of initialization and maintenance of > vhost_memory. Isn't vhost independent from KVM? Takuya From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756519Ab1LPHEy (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:04:54 -0500 Received: from serv2.oss.ntt.co.jp ([222.151.198.100]:37052 "EHLO serv2.oss.ntt.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753389Ab1LPHEx (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:04:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4EEAEDCE.3030109@oss.ntt.co.jp> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:05:50 +0900 From: Takuya Yoshikawa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111103 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zanghongyong@huawei.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, xiaowei.yang@huawei.com, hanweidong@huawei.com, wusongwei@huawei.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] vhot-net: Use kvm_memslots instead of vhost_memory to translate GPA to HVA References: <1324013528-3663-1-git-send-email-zanghongyong@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <1324013528-3663-1-git-send-email-zanghongyong@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (2011/12/16 14:32), zanghongyong@huawei.com wrote: > From: Hongyong Zang > > Vhost-net uses its own vhost_memory, which results from user space (qemu) info, > to translate GPA to HVA. Since kernel's kvm structure already maintains the > address relationship in its member *kvm_memslots*, these patches use kernel's > kvm_memslots directly without the need of initialization and maintenance of > vhost_memory. Isn't vhost independent from KVM? Takuya