From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: blktap, qdisk, xl cd-eject, and xencommons
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:32:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517F9DD8.6060608@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367317306.3142.491.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On 04/30/2013 11:21 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 11:17 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 30.04.13 at 12:02, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>> To address these issue for 4.3, I would like to propose:
>>>
>>> 1. Have libxl default to qdev for everything, except for things that it
>>> needs blktap for (like vhd, IIRC)
>>
>> Everything? I.e. even raw disks? I thought those go through
>> blkbk...
>
> Yes, and they should continue to do so IMHO. I think George really meant
> "all structured disk types" or something.
Yes, sorry -- I suppose what I really meant was to make the preference
"blkback > qdev > blktap" -- i.e., if there's a choice between qdev and
blktap, use qdev (whereas now it's the other way around, AIUI).
-George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-30 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-30 10:02 blktap, qdisk, xl cd-eject, and xencommons George Dunlap
2013-04-30 10:17 ` Jan Beulich
2013-04-30 10:21 ` Ian Campbell
2013-04-30 10:32 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2013-04-30 10:21 ` Ian Campbell
2013-04-30 12:27 ` George Dunlap
2013-04-30 14:12 ` Ian Campbell
2013-04-30 15:09 ` George Dunlap
2013-04-30 15:15 ` George Dunlap
2013-04-30 15:17 ` Ian Campbell
2013-04-30 16:02 ` George Dunlap
2013-04-30 16:06 ` Ian Campbell
2013-04-30 16:09 ` Thanos Makatos
2013-04-30 10:22 ` Wei Liu
2013-04-30 10:56 ` George Dunlap
2013-04-30 11:54 ` Wei Liu
2013-04-30 12:16 ` George Dunlap
2013-04-30 12:38 ` Jan Beulich
2013-05-01 16:30 ` George Dunlap
2013-05-02 6:35 ` Jan Beulich
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