From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkif: add indirect descriptors interface to public headers Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:02:10 +0100 Message-ID: <52977712.2050207@citrix.com> References: <1384252612-22573-1-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Vm4ym-000339-Fp for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:02:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1384252612-22573-1-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.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: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Keir Fraser , Jan Beulich , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 12/11/13 11:36, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > Indirect descriptors introduce a new block operation > (BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) that passes grant references instead of segments > in the request. This grant references are filled with arrays of > blkif_request_segment_aligned, this way we can send more segments in a > request. > > This interface is already implemented in Linux >= 3.11. Ping? I think all comments regarding this patch have been resolved.