Re: virtio PCI on KVM without IO BARs

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On 2013-02-28 16:24, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Another problem with PIO is support for physical virtio devices,
> and nested virt: KVM currently programs all PIO accesses
> to cause vm exit, so using this device in a VM will be slow.

Not answering your question, but support for programming direct PIO
access into KVM's I/O bitmap would be feasible. Such feature may have
some value for assigned devices that use PIO more heavily. They cause
lengthy user-space exists so far.

Jan

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