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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH 3/3] shared memory: Define mmio registers
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:52:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213165230.GE2601@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190213023352.GD14307@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

* Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:42:00AM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> > index 776162a..e2435ff 100644
> > --- a/content.tex
> > +++ b/content.tex
> > @@ -1641,6 +1641,33 @@ All register values are organized as Little Endian.
> >      selected by writing to \field{QueueSel}.
> >    }
> >    \hline 
> > +  \mmioreg{SHMSel}{Shared memory region select}{0x0b0}{W}{%
> > +    Writing to this register selects the shared memory region \ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Shared Memory Regions}
> > +    following operations on \field{SHMId}, \field{SHMLenLow}, \field{SHMLenHigh},
> > +    \field{SHMBaseLow} and \field{SHMBaseHigh} apply to. The index
> > +    number of the first region is zero (0x0); note that it is a
> > +    simple index that does not correspond to the \field{id}.
> 
> Why use a separate virtio-mmio index instead of the shared memory ID?
> The driver would map those IDs it knows about, so I'm not sure if
> enumerating them via a separate index is useful.  Plus using the ID lets
> you drop one register from the interface.

Yes, I think if we don't need enumeration that's right; we just shange
SHMId to be the writeable register and drop the SHMSel register.

Dave


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      reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 11:41 [virtio-comment] [PATCH 0/3] Large shared memory regions Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-01-11 11:41 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 1/3] shared memory: Define " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-01-11 12:15   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-11 12:26     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-15 10:10       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-15 11:23         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-16 10:56           ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-16 20:06             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-11 21:52               ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-13 18:37                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14 10:58                   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 16:37                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14 17:43                       ` Frank Yang
2019-02-15 11:07                         ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 11:19                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 12:31                             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-18 15:28                             ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 11:26                           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:28                             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 12:33                               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:37                                 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 12:59                                   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 13:50                                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 13:56                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 14:02                                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 14:13                                         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 15:14                                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 21:42                                             ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 22:08                                             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:51                     ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 13:33                       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-23 15:12         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-11 15:29     ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-11 16:07       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-11 17:57         ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-15  9:33           ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-13  2:25   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-13 10:44     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14  3:43       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-11 11:41 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 2/3] shared memory: Define PCI capability Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-02-13  2:30   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-11 11:42 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 3/3] shared memory: Define mmio registers Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-02-13  2:33   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-13 16:52     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]

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