From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Fabbri Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC [v2]: vfio / device assignment -- layout of device fd files Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 23:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110926075144.GT12286@yookeroo.fritz.box> <3D54B89C-A0A3-4461-A7A1-3F1E4AB79296@suse.de> <1317062095.25515.75.camel@bling.home> <20110930084647.GF4512@yookeroo.fritz.box> <1317419970.2552.53.camel@bling.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48221 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759161Ab1JFXUJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:20:09 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBxET-00049c-HM for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:20:05 +0200 Received: from sjce-dmz-wsa-4.cisco.com ([173.36.196.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:20:05 +0200 Received: from aafabbri by sjce-dmz-wsa-4.cisco.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:20:05 +0200 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alex Williamson redhat.com> writes: > > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 10:37 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 18:46 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26 at 12:34:52PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:04 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > > Am 26.09.2011 um 09:51 schrieb David Gibson > > > > > [snip] > > > > The other obvious possibility is a pure ioctl interface. [snip] > > FYI for all, I've pushed a branch out to github with the current state > of the re-write. You can find it here > > https://awilliam github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git > git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git I also vote for the ioctl approach. I'd rather not be parsing a stream, no matter how easy it is. Looking through the code now. Aaron