From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 03/11] virtio: support more feature bits
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:23:58 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnpgecqx.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412692807-12398-4-git-send-email-cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> writes:
> With virtio-1, we support more than 32 feature bits. Let's make
> vdev->guest_features depend on the number of supported feature bits,
> allowing us to grow the feature bits automatically.
It's a judgement call, but I would say that simply using uint64_t
will be sufficient for quite a while.
Cheers,
Rusty.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 03/11] virtio: support more feature bits
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:23:58 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnpgecqx.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412692807-12398-4-git-send-email-cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> writes:
> With virtio-1, we support more than 32 feature bits. Let's make
> vdev->guest_features depend on the number of supported feature bits,
> allowing us to grow the feature bits automatically.
It's a judgement call, but I would say that simply using uint64_t
will be sufficient for quite a while.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-13 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 14:39 [PATCH RFC 00/11] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [PATCH RFC 01/11] linux-headers/virtio_config: Update with VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [PATCH RFC 02/11] virtio: cull virtio_bus_set_vdev_features Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [PATCH RFC 03/11] virtio: support more feature bits Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-13 5:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2014-10-13 5:53 ` Rusty Russell
2014-10-13 10:55 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-13 10:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 04/11] s390x/virtio-ccw: fix check for WRITE_FEAT Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 05/11] virtio: introduce legacy virtio devices Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-28 15:40 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-28 15:40 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-28 15:40 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-30 18:02 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-30 18:02 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-30 22:29 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-30 22:29 ` Greg Kurz
2014-11-03 11:44 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-11-03 11:44 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-11-03 11:44 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 06/11] virtio: allow virtio-1 queue layout Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 07/11] dataplane: allow virtio-1 devices Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-28 15:22 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-28 15:22 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-28 15:22 ` Greg Kurz
2014-10-30 9:18 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-30 9:18 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 08/11] s390x/css: Add a callback for when subchannel gets disabled Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 09/11] s390x/virtio-ccw: add virtio set-revision call Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 10/11] s390x/virtio-ccw: support virtio-1 set_vq format Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [PATCH RFC 11/11] s390x/virtio-ccw: enable virtio 1.0 Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-07 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-08 1:24 ` [PATCH RFC 00/11] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-08 1:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-08 9:04 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-08 9:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-22 8:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22 8:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22 14:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-10-22 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2014-10-22 14:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22 14:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22 20:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-10-22 20:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-10-23 6:44 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-10-23 6:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2014-10-23 9:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-23 9:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-23 7:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-23 7:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-23 21:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-23 21:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-24 8:38 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-24 8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-24 12:37 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-24 12:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-24 14:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-24 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-24 14:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-24 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-28 4:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-28 4:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-30 16:52 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-10-30 16:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cornelia Huck
2014-10-24 8:38 ` Cornelia Huck
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