Re: 9p file system for xen

[Linda <lindaj@jma3.com>]

On 12/1/2015 4:47 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Neil Sikka wrote:
>> Hi Wei, could you please explain why/how you would have done the project
>> differently now and why these patches are not "good"? From my conversation
>> with Linda, I understood that her code is "Independent of virtio except the
>> 9pvirtio specific code, which is used extensively."
>>
> I need to implement a xen transport for 9pfs. Linda was essentially
> doing the same. But she didn't specify the canonical protocol between
> frontend and backend.
For my own edification:  In the interests of the limited time of my 
internship, we decided I shouldn't do the initialization using the xen 
toolstack.  Were there are other expediencies that I'm unaware of?

I tried to follow the xen handshaking protocol between front and back 
end at startup.

Thanks.

Linda
>
> As for "9pvirtio specific code", I think there is misunderstanding
> because though a lot of files in QEMU are prefixed with virtio they are
> actually not specific to virtio at all. I think the "independent of
> virtio ..." part was referring to the new transport she wrote.
>
> Wei.
>