From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Ira W. Snyder" <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Zang Roy <r61911@freescale.com>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Using virtio as a physical (wire-level) transport
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:19:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100906111936.GB15608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C336074-FC8C-4BDF-B945-5295133CDB38@suse.de>
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 07:34:19AM -0400, Alexander Graf wrote:
> I'd vote for defining virtio v2 that makes everything LE. Maybe we
> could even have an LE capability with a grace period of phasing out
> non-LE capable hosts and guests.
So there are multiple ideas floating for modifying the ring,
and together they might warrant virtio2.
This includes removing available ring, publishing consumer indexes,
possibly some interrupt mitigation ideas, and we can put
endian-ness there.
--
MST
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-06 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-04 23:04 Using virtio as a physical (wire-level) transport Ira W. Snyder
2010-08-05 21:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-05 23:01 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-08-05 23:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-06 15:34 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-08-14 11:34 ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-16 0:19 ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-06 11:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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