From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rusycorp.com.au>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:13:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <473327A1.9080907@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473325EB.5090907@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> If a pci device is capable of dma (or issuing interrupts), it will be
>> useless with pv pci.
>
> Hrm, I think we may be talking about different things. Are you
> thinking that the driver I posted allows you to do PCI pass-through
> over virtio? That's not what it is.
>
> The driver I posted is a virtio implementation that uses a PCI
> device. This lets you use virtio-blk and virtio-net under KVM. The
> alternative to this virtio PCI device would be a virtio transport
> built with hypercalls like lguest has. I choose a PCI device because
> it ensured that each virtio device showed up like a normal PCI device.
>
> Am I misunderstanding what you're asking about?
>
No, I completely misunderstood the patch. Should review complete
patches rather than random hunks.
Sorry for the noise.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 2:46 [PATCH 0/3] virtio PCI driver Anthony Liguori
2007-11-08 2:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] Export vring functions for modules to use Anthony Liguori
2007-11-08 2:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] Put the virtio under the virtualization menu Anthony Liguori
2007-11-08 2:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device Anthony Liguori
2007-11-08 6:12 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2007-11-08 13:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-08 14:37 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-08 15:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-08 15:13 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-11-08 23:43 ` Dor Laor
2007-11-08 17:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-11-08 19:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-09 11:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-11-09 0:39 ` Dor Laor
2007-11-09 2:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-20 15:01 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-20 15:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-20 16:12 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-20 22:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-21 7:13 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-21 18:22 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-11-22 7:32 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-23 16:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-23 17:47 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-26 19:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-11-27 9:02 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-27 9:09 ` Carsten Otte
2007-11-27 9:27 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-27 10:12 ` Carsten Otte
2007-11-27 10:19 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-27 10:28 ` Carsten Otte
2007-11-27 9:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-11-08 6:49 ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Put the virtio under the virtualization menu Avi Kivity
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