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2020 Apr 30
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[RFC/PATCH 1/1] virtio: Introduce MMIO ops
...abilities. > >>> 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 may not support. A > simple shared memory and doorbell or message-queue based transport will work for > us. As written in our private conversation, a mapping of the ivshmem2 devi...
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 message-q...