From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <andr2000@gmail.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libgnttab: Add support for Linux dma-buf
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:00:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d112f46c-b5f3-b5aa-2855-40d4b663aa1e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180725095313.iszfd4xyc6hgixhf@citrix.com>
On 07/25/2018 12:53 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:49:29PM +0300, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>> On 07/25/2018 12:39 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 03:27:25PM +0300, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>>> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
>>>>
>>>> Add support for Linux grant device driver extension which allows
>>>> converting existing dma-buf's into an array of grant references
>>>> and vise versa. This is only implemented for Linux as other OSes
>>>> have no Linux dma-buf support.
>>>>
>>>> Bump gnttab library minor version to 3.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
>>> Has the Linux side been merged yet?
>> It is going to be merged into Boris' staging for now
>> and then eventually move into Xen tip's for-linus (Boris can
>> tell more on that: Linux is already at rc6, so I think this
>> can happen in the nearest future).
>>
> OK. So the interfaces on Linux's side are agreed.
Yes
>
>> Given that Xen and Linux parts are actually independent,
>> I decided to start upstreaming libgnttab changes now, allowing
>> me to mature the code and address comments
> From my PoV this patch provides a bunch of wrappers around Linux ioctls
> so I would like to be sure the underlying interfaces are agreed before
> reviewing.
Fair enough,
Boris could you please estimate when the corresponding Linux
changes have a chance to get into Xen tip Linux tree?
> Wei.
Thank you,
Oleksandr
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-23 12:27 [PATCH] libgnttab: Add support for Linux dma-buf Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2018-07-25 9:39 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-25 9:49 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2018-07-25 9:53 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-25 10:00 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko [this message]
2018-07-25 12:23 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2018-07-30 7:38 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2018-08-20 8:43 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2018-08-20 14:40 ` Wei Liu
2018-08-21 5:47 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
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