On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:15:00 +0200 Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host > have a different endianness. > > Patch 7 got rewritten according to Cornelia's and Michael's comments. I have > also introduced patch 8 that brings BE vnet headers support to tun/macvtap. > > This series is enough to have vhost_net working flawlessly. I could > succesfully reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and vice-versa on ppc64 > and ppc64le hosts. > Michael, I am ready to post v5 with the changes suggested by Cornelia... Do you have any extra comments on this v4 ? -- Greg > --- > > Greg Kurz (8): > virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper > tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper > macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian() helper > vringh: introduce vringh_is_little_endian() helper > vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helper > virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors > vhost: feature to set the vring endianness > macvtap/tun: add VNET_BE flag > > > drivers/net/Kconfig | 12 ++++++ > drivers/net/macvtap.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > drivers/net/tun.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 10 +++++ > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 25 ++++++++++--- > include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h | 24 +++++++----- > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 19 +++++++--- > include/linux/vringh.h | 19 +++++++--- > include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 2 + > include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 9 +++++ > 11 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Virtualization mailing list > Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization > _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
