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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Sjur Brændeland" <sjurbren@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] virtio_host: host-side implementation of virtio rings.
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:14:08 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v73lpp3.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJK669aVu_h-ZJnNF0yWBvzfvfj2NSNxDkuHSmJxdUGLNtjOcQ@mail.gmail.com>

Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Rusty,
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Getting use of virtio rings correct is tricky, and a recent patch saw
>> an implementation of in-kernel rings (as separate from userspace).
>>
>> This patch attempts to abstract the business of dealing with the
>> virtio ring layout from the access (userspace or direct); to do this,
>> we use function pointers, which gcc inlines correctly.
>
>
> I have been using your patches for a while in my test setup without any
> issues with vringh. The only thing I'm missing is export of symbols.
> My current caif_virtio driver expects vringh to be a module exporting
> symbols. Is this something you are planning to add?

Yes, sure.  There may be some more minor changes, but nothing radical.

> I guess my vringh related stuff should go into your tree together with your
> vringh patches...
> Would you be willing to take this via your tree, provided that I get acks
> from the right people?

Yes please.  Now I have set up a test rig for vhost (unfortunately not
with 10Ge) I can make progress on vhost adaption.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-17 10:29 [PATCH 1/6] virtio_host: host-side implementation of virtio rings Rusty Russell
2013-01-17 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] tools/virtio: fix compile Rusty Russell
2013-01-17 10:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] tools/virtio: separate headers more Rusty Russell
2013-01-17 10:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] tools/virtio: add vring_test Rusty Russell
2013-01-22  8:25   ` Asias He
2013-01-22 23:03     ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-23  1:40       ` Asias He
2013-01-24  2:22         ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-17 10:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] vringh: separate callback for notification Rusty Russell
2013-01-17 10:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] tools/virtio: adapt for API changes Rusty Russell
2013-01-17 11:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] virtio_host: host-side implementation of virtio rings Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-17 11:49   ` Sjur Brændeland
2013-01-17 12:08     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-21  2:36     ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-22 14:54       ` Sjur Brændeland
2013-01-21  2:34   ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-21  9:41     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-21 11:52     ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-21 12:24       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-21 12:40         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-21 22:57         ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-22  6:57           ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-22  7:13           ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-22  8:12 ` Asias He
2013-01-23  1:56   ` Rusty Russell
2013-02-04 20:29 ` Sjur Brændeland
2013-02-04 21:44   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-02-12 18:58     ` Sjur Brændeland
2013-02-13 10:25       ` Rusty Russell
2013-02-14 14:54         ` Sjur Brændeland

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