From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/15] virtio-scsi: Add virtio-scsi stub device
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:46:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F35119C.3030404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QX-t7Jy-oijnqNv5-RmwicMBmKEYmVFYrehbLHZR+TAsw@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/10/2012 01:41 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> At this early stage we still have the option of designing the device
> to be little- or big-endian. I'm in favour of a fixed endianness even
> though existing virtio devices tend to use guest-endian.
>
> What do you think?
Interesting idea, but I'd say no for three reasons:
1) The virtqueue would remain in guest-endianness.
2) Even if the result is better, it is still different from every other
device, so right now it would be a one-off exception (and it would
likely remain so; it's not like there are new virtio devices every week :)).
3) I'm afraid of breaking something else, for example pSeries virtio is
doing complicated things that I don't really understand to split the I/O
BAR in two parts, the first in PCI endianness and the second in native
endianness.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-10 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-16 16:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/15] SCSI s/g + SCSI migration + virtio-scsi Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/15] dma-helpers: make QEMUSGList target independent Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/15] dma-helpers: add dma_buf_read and dma_buf_write Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/15] dma-helpers: add accounting wrappers Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/15] ahci: use new DMA helpers Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/15] scsi: pass residual amount to command_complete Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-10 11:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-10 11:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/15] scsi: add scatter/gather functionality Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/15] scsi-disk: enable " Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/15] scsi: add SCSIDevice vmstate definitions Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/15] scsi-generic: add migration support Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/15] scsi-disk: " Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/15] virtio-scsi: Add virtio-scsi stub device Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-10 12:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-10 12:46 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/15] virtio-scsi: Add basic request processing infrastructure Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/15] virtio-scsi: add basic SCSI bus operation Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] virtio-scsi: process control queue requests Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-16 16:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/15] virtio-scsi: add migration support Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-18 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/15] SCSI s/g + SCSI migration + virtio-scsi Hu Tao
2012-01-19 15:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-23 13:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Hu Tao
2012-01-31 12:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-09 5:46 ` Hu Tao
2012-02-09 7:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-09 8:08 ` Hu Tao
2012-02-10 14:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-10 14:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
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