Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "ivshmem2".
Did you mean:
ivshmem
2020 Apr 30
0
[RFC/PATCH 1/1] virtio: Introduce MMIO ops
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 07:03:21PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> * Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> [2020-04-30 14:59:50]:
>
> > >I believe ivshmem2_virtio requires hypervisor to support PCI device emulation
> > >(for life-cycle management of VMs), which our hypervisor may not support.
PCI is mostly just 2 registers. One sets the affected device, one the data to read/write.
> A
> > >simple shared memory and doorbell or me...
2020 Apr 30
0
[RFC/PATCH 1/1] virtio: Introduce MMIO ops
...-compliant hypervisors out there?
>
> Ok I see your point and yes for better binary compatibility, the ops have to be
> set based on runtime detection of hypervisor capabilities.
>
>>> Ok. I guess the other option is to standardize on a new virtio transport (like
>>> ivshmem2-virtio)?
>>
>> I haven't looked at that, but I suppose it depends on what your hypervisor
>> folks are willing to accomodate.
>
> I believe ivshmem2_virtio requires hypervisor to support PCI device emulation
> (for life-cycle management of VMs), which our hypervisor...
2020 Apr 30
0
[RFC/PATCH 1/1] virtio: Introduce MMIO ops
...info("Registered %s as mmio ops\n", ops->name);
> > > + mmio_ops = ops;
> >
> > Not looking good, and really defeats the point of standardising this stuff
> > imo.
>
> Ok. I guess the other option is to standardize on a new virtio transport (like
> ivshmem2-virtio)?
I haven't looked at that, but I suppose it depends on what your hypervisor
folks are willing to accomodate.
Will