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Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x
From: |
Halil Pasic |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:13:29 +0200 |
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:17:55 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Yes, virtio-fs is a new device, but libvhost-user is not specific to
virtio-fs.
Regards,
Halil
- [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, 2020/06/25
- Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x,
Halil Pasic <=
- 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