From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, penberg@kernel.org,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
avi@redhat.com, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC] virtio-spec: flexible configuration layout
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:28:52 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa7xos3n.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqeH3ErNCELD+NoJHz=eH6FtxersUffoJSj0yQx2o=4g0g@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:39:13 +0200, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > (2) There's no huge win in keeping the same layout. Let's make some
> > cleanups. There are more users ahead of us then behind us (I
> > hope!).
>
> Actually, if we already do cleanups, here are two more suggestions:
>
> 1. Make 64bit features a one big 64bit block, instead of having 32bits
> in one place and 32 in another.
> 2. Remove the reserved fields out of the config (the ones that were
> caused by moving the ISR and the notifications out).
Yes, those were exactly what I was thinking. I left it vague because
there might be others you can see if we're prepared to abandon the
current format.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
avi@redhat.com, penberg@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC] virtio-spec: flexible configuration layout
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:28:52 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa7xos3n.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqeH3ErNCELD+NoJHz=eH6FtxersUffoJSj0yQx2o=4g0g@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:39:13 +0200, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > (2) There's no huge win in keeping the same layout. Let's make some
> > cleanups. There are more users ahead of us then behind us (I
> > hope!).
>
> Actually, if we already do cleanups, here are two more suggestions:
>
> 1. Make 64bit features a one big 64bit block, instead of having 32bits
> in one place and 32 in another.
> 2. Remove the reserved fields out of the config (the ones that were
> caused by moving the ISR and the notifications out).
Yes, those were exactly what I was thinking. I left it vague because
there might be others you can see if we're prepared to abandon the
current format.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-15 23:58 UTC|newest]
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2011-11-01 11:45 ` [PULL] virtio Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-01 11:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-01 12:33 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-01 12:33 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-01 12:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-01 12:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-01 12:45 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-01 12:45 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-02 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-02 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-02 4:52 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-02 4:52 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-02 22:07 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-02 22:07 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-02 23:31 ` [PATCH RFC] virtio-pci: flexible configuration layout Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-02 23:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 0:19 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-03 0:19 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-03 10:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 10:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 11:09 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-03 11:09 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-03 11:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 11:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 13:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 13:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 10:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-03 10:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-03 12:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 12:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 13:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-03 13:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-03 13:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 13:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-03 14:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2011-11-03 14:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2011-11-08 21:40 ` [PATCH RFC] virtio-spec: " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-08 21:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-08 21:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 10:21 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-09 8:46 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 10:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 10:26 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:26 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 10:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 12:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-09 12:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-09 12:28 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 12:28 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 12:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-09 12:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-09 15:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 15:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18 11:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18 11:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18 12:05 ` Sasha Levin
2012-06-18 12:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18 12:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18 12:05 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 12:38 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-09 12:38 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-09 12:48 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 12:48 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 15:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 15:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-13 14:07 ` Ronen Hod
2011-11-13 14:07 ` Ronen Hod
2011-11-09 15:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 15:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-13 20:40 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2011-11-13 20:40 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2011-11-09 8:46 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 9:55 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 10:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 10:20 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:20 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:20 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:47 ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-09 10:55 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:55 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 11:06 ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-09 11:06 ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-09 11:39 ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-09 11:39 ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-09 12:07 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 12:07 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 10:47 ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-09 9:55 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 19:59 ` [PATCHv2 " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 19:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 20:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 20:24 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 20:24 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 20:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 20:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 20:57 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 20:57 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 21:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 21:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 21:13 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-09 21:13 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-10 8:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-10 8:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-11 4:24 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-11 7:39 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-11 7:39 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-11 12:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-11 12:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-11 13:06 ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-11 13:06 ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-15 23:58 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2011-11-15 23:58 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-16 7:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-16 7:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-16 8:17 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-16 8:17 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-16 9:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-16 9:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-11 13:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-11 13:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-13 15:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-13 15:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 6:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 6:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-15 23:58 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-15 23:58 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-16 7:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-16 7:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-11 4:24 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-10 12:24 ` [PATCHv3 " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-10 12:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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