public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
	ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:37:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4423F60B.6020805@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4423E853.1040707@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of 
> host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already 
> present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device 
> infrastructure.

Another benefit of SCSI:  when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel 
switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt 
disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-24 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22 16:52 [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver Ian Pratt
2006-03-22 17:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-22 23:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24 12:17   ` Alan Cox
2006-03-24 12:38     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24 13:37       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-03-24 13:40         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24 13:50           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24 15:33             ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-03-24 19:04               ` Mike Christie
2006-03-24 19:19                 ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-03-25  0:32                   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2006-03-25  0:47                   ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-24 15:55       ` Alan Cox
2006-03-25 10:03         ` Rusty Russell
2006-03-27 10:14   ` Peter Chubb
2006-03-23  8:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23  9:34   ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-23  9:41     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23  9:42     ` Arjan van de Ven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-09  8:49 [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support Chris Wright
2006-05-09  7:00 ` [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver Chris Wright
2006-05-09 12:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-22  6:30 [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support Chris Wright
2006-03-22  6:31 ` [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver Chris Wright
2006-03-22 16:39   ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-22 16:54     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-27  8:42     ` Gerd Hoffmann

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4423F60B.6020805@garzik.org \
    --to=jeff@garzik.org \
    --cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=aliguori@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=chrisw@sous-sol.org \
    --cc=ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk \
    --cc=ian.pratt@xensource.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk \
    --cc=virtualization@lists.osdl.org \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox