From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: [PATCH V5] Update pvSCSI protocol description / libxl Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:32:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20141207123200.GA12451@reaktio.net> References: <1409199272-5155-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1409199272-5155-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Juergen Gross Cc: Olaf Hering , ian.campbell@citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, jbeulich@suse.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hello, Juergen/Olaf: Now that Xen PVSCSI drivers are in upstream Linux 3.18 kernel I was wondering if you guys also have plans to work on adding xl / libxl support for PVSCSI ? Thanks, -- Pasi On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:14:32AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Update the protocol description of the pvSCSI framework used to pass through > SCSI devices to a guest (pv or hvm). > > The main changes are: > - added comments > - add support for larger SG-lists by putting them in an own granted page > - deprecate VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_SG_PRESET action with related structures > - add ref_rqid for action VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_ABORT to be able to specify the > request to abort > - deprecate timeout_per_command as this really should be handled by the > backend in case of default settings or by the guest domain by aborting a > long running command > > This update is related to the rework of the pvSCSI backend and frontend drivers > in the Linux kernel. This interface version is included in that rework, too. > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross > Reviewed-by: David Vrabel > Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > --- > xen/include/public/io/vscsiif.h | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 164 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) >