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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/2] virtio: Move host features to backends
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/2] virtio: Move host features to backends |
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Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:48:01 +0200 |
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 07:51:11PM +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <address@hidden>
>
> The reason to do this is that the virtio-net-device can't expose host
> features to guest while using virtio-mmio. So the performance is low.
>
> The virtio-*-pci, virtio-*-s390, and virtio-*-ccw already have the
> ability to forward property accesses to the backend child, by calling
> *_virtio_*_instance_init -> qdev_alias_all_properties. So if we move the
> host features to backends, it doesn't break the backwards compatibility
> for virtio-*-pci, virtio-*-s390, and virtio-*-ccw.
>
> Here we move the host features to backends, involving
> DEFINE_VIRTIO_NET_FEATURES, DEFINE_VIRTIO_SCSI_FEATURES. So the
> virtio-mmio devices could have the host freatures, and this has a great
> performance improvement to virtio-mmio, especially to virtio-net-device.
Can you move COMMON_FEATURES too please?
> changes since v3:
> * detail the changes in commit log
> * don't expose virtio_net_set_config_size
>
> changes since v2:
> * move virtio_net_set_config_size to virtio-net (Cornelia)
>
> changes since v1:
> * drop unnecessary change of adding device_plugged hook for
> virtio-ccw and s390-virtio-bus (Cornelia)
>
> Shannon Zhao (2):
> virtio-net: Move DEFINE_VIRTIO_NET_FEATURES to virtio-net
> virtio-scsi: Move DEFINE_VIRTIO_SCSI_FEATURES to virtio-scsi
>
> hw/net/virtio-net.c | 7 ++++++-
> hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c | 3 ---
> hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c | 3 ---
> hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c | 5 +++++
> hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c | 3 ---
> include/hw/virtio/virtio-net.h | 2 +-
> include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h | 1 +
> 7 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.1.0
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/2] virtio: Move host features to backends, Peter Maydell, 2015/04/28