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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host suppor
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Cornelia Huck |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support |
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Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:06:51 +0100 |
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:42:11 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 04:31:39PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:24:22 +0200
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 04:16:33PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > > Yet another version of the virtio-1 support patches.
> > > >
> > > > This one has seen some (very) light testing with the virtio-1 guest
> > > > support patches currently on vhost-next.
> > > >
> > > > Changes from v3:
> > > >
> > > > - Add support for FEATURES_OK. We refuse to set features after the
> > > > driver has set this in the status field, and we allow to fail
> > > > setting the status if the features are inconsistent.
> > > > - Add missing virtio-1 changes for virtio-net (header size and mac).
> > > > - Dropped setting the VERSION_1 bit for virtio-blk: There's still
> > > > some stuff missing.
> > > >
> > > > For virtio-blk, we need to validate the feature bits if version 1 is
> > > > negotiated: some legacy features are not allowed in that case. I'm not
> > > > quite sure how to handle this, though. We could use the new
> > > > validate_features callback to verify that the driver negotiated a
> > > > sensible feature set, but that would require us to offer a superset
> > > > of legacy and version 1 bits, which feels wrong. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > No, that's violating the spec.
> > > I think the simplest way is to have separate features and
> > > legacy_features fields. Present the correct one depending on which
> > > revision was negotiated.
> >
> > But revisions are a virtio-ccw only thing - what can other transports
> > do here?
>
> Other transports have different ways to deal with this.
> For example virtio pci exposes a legacy header and
> a modern header. Legacy header will expose old features,
> modern one - new features.
>
> mmio simply does not support transitional devices.
> So qemu user will have to specify virtio 1.0 or 0.9 for mmio.
>
> Other transports are out of virtio 1.0 spec so
> they just use legacy features.
>
> > The basic problem is that we decide via a feature bit that
> > needs to be negotiated which feature bits we want to present.
>
> Consider wce as one example. This is not needed for modern guests, so
> we can just mask it from modern feature mask. Consider virtio blk scsi
> commands as another example. this feature is not supported in virtio
> 1.0, so we must mask it from modern feature mask.
>
> Seems the same handling works in all cases?
This was just what I was talking about...
>
>
> > pci and
> > mmio don't have a way to know whether the driver wants to use 1.0 or
> > legacy prior to feature negotiation, do they?
>
> pci does. mmio doesn't but it does not want to support transitional
> devices.
>
So we should have a per-device callback into the transport layer, say
check_legacy()?
For ccw, this would check for the negotiated revision; for mmio, it
could check a device property configured with the device; and for pci,
whatever the mechanism is there :)
A transport not implementing this callback is simply considered
legacy-only.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 10/16] s390x/virtio-ccw: support virtio-1 set_vq format, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 10/16] s390x/virtio-ccw: support virtio-1 set_vq format, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 11/16] virtio: disallow late feature changes for virtio-1, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 12/16] virtio: allow to fail setting status, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 13/16] s390x/virtio-ccw: enable virtio 1.0, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 14/16] virtio-net: no writeable mac for virtio-1, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 16/16] virtio-net: enable virtio 1.0, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 15/16] virtio-net: support longer header, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support,
Cornelia Huck <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/28