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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Michael Tsirkin" <mtsirkin@redhat.com>,
	edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>,
	"Shannon Zhao" <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>,
	"qemu devel list" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	"Smith, Jonathan D" <jonathan.d.smith@intel.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel@redhat.com>,
	"Igor Mammedov" <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	"Marc Marí" <markmb@redhat.com>, "Jake Edge" <jake@lwn.net>,
	"Gabriel L. Somlo (CMU)" <somlo@cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 01:21:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E8D615.5070808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150903212504.GA24388@cloud>

On 09/03/15 23:25, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

>> In any case, if what you need resembles a "general virtio filesystem",
>> then please just use that -- a virtio-block or virtio-scsi disk, with a
>> normal filesystem on it. The protocol is industry standard and the
>> performance of the QEMU (and kernel) implementation is splendid.
> 
> Not at all what I'm looking for; I'm looking for a *filesystem*, like
> virtio-9p, but with significantly better performance.  I agree that
> starting from fw_cfg for that is probably a bad idea; it's more that if
> a high-performance virtio filesystem existed, it might also work for
> fw_cfg. :)

Thanks for mentioning "virtio-9p", now I remember what to point at
instead of it. I recommend Stefan's slides from this year's KVM forum.

https://kvmforum2015.sched.org/event/bca50b64e0fbea734b855498f25d0753
http://blog.vmsplice.net/2015/08/virtio-vsock-zero-configuration.html

Thanks
Laszlo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-03  9:16 [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI" Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-03  9:41 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-03 14:48   ` Jake Edge
2015-09-03 14:50 ` Josh Triplett
2015-09-03 15:22   ` josh
2015-09-03 15:53   ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-03 15:57     ` Moore, Robert
2015-09-03 16:16       ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-03 16:19         ` Moore, Robert
2015-09-03 16:41     ` josh
2015-09-03 17:19       ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-03 21:25         ` josh
2015-09-03 23:21           ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2015-09-04 17:11             ` josh

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