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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC-v2 4/6] virtio-scsi: Add start/stop
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>, Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, lf-virt <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Il 20/08/2012 13:57, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>>> > > How much of the functionality of virtio-scsi.[ch] is still in use at
>>> > > this point?  Would it make more sense to use a separate vhost-scsi-pci
>>> > > device instead?
>> > 
>> > Since the SCSI target lives in the kernel, almost everything is driven
>> > from tcm_vhost.ko.  tcm_vhost.ko basically implements the full device
>> > so I see the argument for -device vhost-scsi-pci.
> A bit unhappy that there is no virtio in the name since it is
> implementing virtio protocol.
> 

Yeah, but vhost \subseteq virtio...

Paolo