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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.a@redhat.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S.\	Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Slutz, Donald Christopher" <dslutz@verizon.com>,
	"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/1] xen-hvm.c: Add support for Xen access to vmport
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:44:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412174646.4861.38.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1410011011030.17038@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 10:20 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> I wonder if we could send both ioreqs at once from Xen and back from
> QEMU. Or maybe append the registers to IOREQ_TYPE_VMWARE_PORT, changing
> the size of ioreq_t only for this ioreq type.

Random idea: Why new add a IOREQ_TYPE_FULL_STATE which would be issued
for these ports and let qemu decode the fact that it is vmware
internally? That might be a more generically useful interface in the
future?

WRT to fitting all the register state in the current sized request, you
could declare that this new thing takes multiple slots.

Also, I may be wrong, but I thought most IOREQs were synchronous so only
one slot was ever used? The buffered ioreq stuff has a separate ring (or
uses a different part of the page, or something). I might be talking
nonsense here though ;-)

Ian.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-26 18:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Add support for Xen access to vmport Don Slutz
2014-09-26 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] xen-hvm.c: " Don Slutz
2014-09-29  8:12   ` Alexander Graf
2014-09-29 11:10     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-29 11:53       ` Alexander Graf
2014-09-29 12:21         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-29 12:57           ` Alexander Graf
2014-09-29 13:14             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-30  1:05               ` Don Slutz
2014-09-30  8:14                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-30  1:00         ` Don Slutz
2014-09-29 10:15   ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-09-29 10:25     ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-09-30  0:32       ` Don Slutz
2014-09-30 10:35         ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-10-01  5:21           ` Slutz, Donald Christopher
2014-10-01  9:20             ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-10-01 12:33               ` Don Slutz
2014-10-01 14:44               ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-10-01 16:01                 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2014-10-01 15:08               ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant

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