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Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x
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Cornelia Huck |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:17:55 +0200 |
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:04:26 +0200
Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> This RFC is about enabling virtio-fs on s390x. For that we need
> + some shim code (first patch), and we need
> + libvhost-user to deal with virtio endiannes as mandated by the spec.
>
> The second part is trickier, because unlike QEMU we are not certain
> about the guest's native endianness, which is needed to handle the
> legacy-interface appropriately. In fact, this is the reason why just
> RFC.
>
> One of the open questions is whether to build separate versions, one
> for guest little endian and one for guest big endian, or do we want
> something like a command line option? (Digression on the libvirt
> modeling)
>
> A third option would be to refuse legacy altogether.
The third option looks the most tempting to me. It is a new device, so
I don't think there's much of a case to be made for pre-virtio-1
support?
- [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, Marc Hartmayer, 2020/06/25
- [RFC 1/4] virtio: add vhost-user-fs-ccw device, Marc Hartmayer, 2020/06/25
- [RFC 4/4] HACK: Hard-code the libvhost-user.o-cflags for s390x, Marc Hartmayer, 2020/06/25
- [RFC 3/4] libvhost-user: handle endianness as mandated by the spec, Marc Hartmayer, 2020/06/25
- [RFC 2/4] libvhost-user: print invalid address on vu_panic, Marc Hartmayer, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, no-reply, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, no-reply, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x,
Cornelia Huck <=
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, Halil Pasic, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2020/06/29