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From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix for handling of shadow doorbell buffer.
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:10:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180817071009.GB11383@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d57e77d8-88e2-b92a-9545-7118de4d8065@google.com>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018@06:35:16PM -0700, Michal Wnukowski wrote:
> 
> The other side in this case is not actual controller hardware, but 
> virtual one (the regular hardware should rely on normal MMIO 
> doorbells).

There could very much be real hardware there.  We've made it clear
in the spec that while a typical use case is a virtualized controller
there is nothing peventing hardware implementations.  There have
been previous hardware prototypes to use very similar tricks, e.g.:

https://www.usenix.org/node/179878

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 22:17 [PATCH] Bugfix for handling of shadow doorbell buffer Michal Wnukowski
2018-08-14 22:57 ` Keith Busch
2018-08-14 23:16   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-14 23:49     ` Keith Busch
2018-08-15  1:35     ` Michal Wnukowski
2018-08-15  2:02       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 22:51         ` [PATCH v2] " Michal Wnukowski
2018-08-16 14:15           ` Keith Busch
2018-08-16 21:20           ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-08-17  7:07           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-20 20:09             ` Michal Wnukowski
2018-08-17  7:10       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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