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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] powerpc-virtio: virtio support introduced (
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] powerpc-virtio: virtio support introduced (block, network, serial, balloon, 9p-fs), both fullemu and power-kvm |
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Wed, 18 May 2011 11:58:11 +0300 |
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:27:45PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:06:41AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > On 17.05.2011, at 08:47, David Gibson wrote:
> > > From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > The recently added pseries machine does not currently support PCI
> > > emulation. For the (upcoming) kvm case, this is quite difficult to do
> > > because the preferred HV mode for the host kernel does not allow MMIO
> > > emulation (a hardware limitation).
> > >
> > > Therefore, to support virtio devices, we implement a new virtio setup
> > > protocol for PAPR guests. This is based loosely on the s390 and lguest
> > > methods, using the PAPR hcalls for the virtio primitive operations,
> > > and the PAPR device tree to advertise the virtio device resources to the
> > > guest.
> > >
> > > This patch includes support for the virtio block, network, serial, and
> > > balloon devices, and the 9p filesystem.
> [snip]
> >
> > Before including such a patch, we should really discuss the desired
> > interface for virtio on sPAPR. I personally would prefer if we could
> > have a generic MMIO hypercall that the guest issues, so that we can
> > simply use virtio-pci on sPAPR (and all the other PCI hardware).
>
> Hrm. I'm not thrilled at that idea. We would still need to advertise
> in the device tree to use the MMIO hypercall, instead of going direct
> - since we will be going direct for things like passthrough PCI
> devices under KVM.
>
> > But at the end of the day, the steps should be as follows:
> >
> > 1) Discuss this on the virtualization ML
>
> Ok, which list do you mean here?
>
> > 2) Send patches for the virtio documentation so the protocol has a spec
> > (which we're lacking for s390 still)
> > 3) Implement Linux side, upstream it
>
> I don't see why the Linux guest side needs to go before the qemu
> side. You can't use one without the other, so there's no clear order.
Agree here. I would further argue qemu should go in first,
this is what happens with real devices: first hardware, then
driver. Linux side just needs to be ready and available in the repository
somewhere.
> > 4) Upstream Qemu side
> >
> > Since I haven't seen 1-3, I'd like to defer this patch until the
> > other points are good :)
>
> Hmm. I'll see what I can do.
>
> --
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> _other_
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- [Qemu-devel] pSseries platform updates, cleanup and virtio support, David Gibson, 2011/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] pSeries: Clean up write-only variables, David Gibson, 2011/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio: Added function to calculate number of bytes required to allocate a VRing, David Gibson, 2011/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] powerpc-virtio: virtio support introduced (block, network, serial, balloon, 9p-fs), both fullemu and power-kvm, David Gibson, 2011/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] powerpc-virtio: virtio support introduced (block, network, serial, balloon, 9p-fs), both fullemu and power-kvm, Alexander Graf, 2011/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] powerpc-virtio: virtio support introduced (block, network, serial, balloon, 9p-fs), both fullemu and power-kvm, David Gibson, 2011/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] powerpc-virtio: virtio support introduced (block, network, serial, balloon, 9p-fs), both fullemu and power-kvm,
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