On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:17:13AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Il 20/06/2013 04:40, Rusty Russell ha scritto: > >> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Il 19/06/2013 10:24, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto: > >>>>>> 2) We introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_ANY_LAYOUT and VIRTIO_BLK_F_ANY_LAYOUT > >>>>>> specifically for net and block (note the new names). > >>> > >>> So why not a transport feature? Is it just because the SCSI commands > >>> for virtio-blk also require a config space field? Sorry if I missed > >>> this upthread. > >> > >> Mainly because I'm not sure that *all* devices are now safe. Are they? > > > > virtio-scsi's implementation in QEMU is not safe (been delaying that for > > too long, sorry), but the spec is safe. > > Then if we added a transport feature, we couldn't use it :( > > So I think it needs to be a per-device feature bit. > > Cheers, > Rusty. Yea. Could you push the updated spec so I can send the updated patch? Would be nice to have the virtio-net optimization in 3.11. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
