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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: john cooper <john.cooper@third-harmonic.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix virtio_blk serial pci config breakage
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:22:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC2342C.4070101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC210FB.8030204@codemonkey.ws>

On 09/29/2009 03:51 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> The change this patch implements is passing of the
>> identify data through a mapping established by
>> PCI BAR #5 rather than the PCI config area, the
>> latter of which resulted in the above breakage.
>
>
> This is a massive layering violation.  The virtio-blk ABI cannot make 
> demands of the transport.

True.

>
> The better solution would be to move the entire virtio-pci config 
> space to a separate BAR that's an MMIO region.  Then there is no 
> practical limit on the size of the config area.

Don't some fast-paths accesses go through the config space?  Using mmio 
will slow them down.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07 18:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: make virtio-blk PCI compliant by default Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-08  7:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " john cooper
2009-09-08  7:58   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-21 11:09     ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-21 15:47       ` john cooper
2009-09-22  9:30         ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-22 14:21           ` john cooper
2009-09-22 14:27             ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-22 14:41               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-22 14:45                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-22 15:09               ` john cooper
2009-09-23  1:59                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-23  4:56                   ` john cooper
2009-09-29  6:09                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] fix virtio_blk serial pci config breakage john cooper
2009-09-29  6:58                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-29  7:22                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-29  8:54                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-29  9:16                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-29 13:55                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29 14:06                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-29 14:14                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29 16:24                                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-29 16:30                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-29 17:26                                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29 17:31                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-29 17:28                               ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-29 17:31                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30  1:12                                   ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-30  1:22                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-05 15:44                                     ` john cooper
2009-09-29 18:44                               ` john cooper
2009-09-29 20:55                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30  1:19                                   ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-30  2:17                                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30 12:00                                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-30 18:04                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-05 15:41                                           ` john cooper
2009-09-30 11:47                                   ` Paul Brook
2009-10-05 15:40                                     ` john cooper
2009-09-29 13:51                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29 16:22                         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-09-29 17:24                           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29  6:09                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] " john cooper
2009-09-29  9:01                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-05 15:47                       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix virtio_blk serial pci config breakage, v2 john cooper
2009-10-05 19:54                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-07  5:49                           ` john cooper
2009-10-07 13:48                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 13:52                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-07 13:55                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 15:38                                   ` john cooper
2009-10-05 20:15                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-06 14:23                         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29  6:10                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] fix virtio_blk serial pci config breakage john cooper
2009-09-29  6:57                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-29 17:14                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-14 11:39   ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu: make virtio-blk PCI compliant by default Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-15  7:29     ` john cooper
2009-09-22  5:06     ` Rusty Russell

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