On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Alok Kataria wrote: >> I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to >> communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between our >> storage and network drivers. As a result, I don't see any benefit of >> separating out this ring handling mechanism, on the contrary it might >> just add some overhead of translating between various layers for our >> SCSI driver. >> > > But if you separate out the ring logic, it allows the scsi logic to be > shared by other paravirtual device drivers. This is significant and > important from a Linux point of view. As someone who has been hacking on a virtio scsi prototype I don't think it's a good idea. The vmware driver is a horrible design and I don't think it should be merged. Besides beeing a ugly driver and ABI we really should not support this kind of closed protocol development. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
