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[80.230.39.98]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-49974170572sm17781805e9.15.2026.08.10.14.42.34 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:42:32 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: "Graf (AWS), Alexander" Cc: Jason Wang , Alex Williamson , David Airlie , Dmitry Osipenko , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Eugenio =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , Feng Liu , Gerd Hoffmann , Halil Pasic , Jens Axboe , Jiri Pirko , Jonathan Corbet , "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "nh-open-source@amazon.com" , "nvdimm@lists.linux.dev" , Pankaj Gupta , Paolo Bonzini , Parav Pandit , Shuah Khan , Stefan Hajnoczi , "virtualization@lists.linux.dev" , Xuan Zhuo , Yishai Hadas Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] virtio: support devices that own their virtqueue memory Message-ID: <20260810162924-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20260809182010.32931-1-graf@amazon.com> <20260810021450-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20260810035246-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <21714074-dc1e-4ef3-a515-6602bd19f055@amazon.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21714074-dc1e-4ef3-a515-6602bd19f055@amazon.de> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 07:14:09PM +0000, Graf (AWS), Alexander wrote: > Maybe I'm missing the real point you're trying to make? :) At least one point is not to have text like "intepret every address as an offset" in the spec and actually make it an address.