Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-pci: new config layout: using memory BAR

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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 03:01:50PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> You mean make BAR0 an MMIO BAR?
> Yes, it would break current windows guests.
> Further, as long as we use same address to notify all queues,
> we would also need to decode the instruction on x86 and that's
> measureably slower than PIO.
> We could go back to discussing hypercall use for notifications,
> but that has its own set of issues...

So... does "violating the PCI-e" spec really matter?  Is it preventing
any guest from working properly?

I don't think we should rush an ABI breakage if the only benefit is
claiming spec compliance.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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