From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:18:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] linux: virtio: Standardize virtio's concept of Message-Id: <1226423909.458.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <200811112347.27844.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200811112347.27844.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Avi Kivity Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, markmc@redhat.com, xiantao.zhang@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:47 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:07:09 Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > Both sides of the virtio interface must agree about how big a pfn > really > > > is. This is particularly an issue on architectures where the page > size is > > > configurable (e.g. PowerPC, IA64) -- the interface must be > independent of > > > PAGE_SHIFT. > > Thanks Hollis! Applied, with the following overpatch: Avi, will you commit the matching qemu patch? (I'm not clear on the patch flow for kvm-userspace qemu virtio patches.) -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center