similar to: vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig

On 2020/4/10 ??3:53, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:04 AM Linux Kernel Mailing List > <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org> wrote: >> Commit: 20c384f1ea1a0bc7320bc445c72dd02d2970d594 >> Parent: 5a6b4cc5b7a1892a8d7f63d6cbac6e0ae2a9d031 >> Refname: refs/heads/master >> Web:

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:08:59PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/1 ??9:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:01:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is > > > not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel > > > communication protocol. Such

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:08:59PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/1 ??9:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:01:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is > > > not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel > > > communication protocol. Such

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:29:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/1 ??10:13, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:08:59PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2020/4/1 ??9:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:01:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:29:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/1 ??10:13, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:08:59PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2020/4/1 ??9:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:01:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on

On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote: > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is > not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel > communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without > virtualization support from using vhost. > > To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so > CONIFG_VHOST

On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote: > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is > not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel > communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without > virtualization support from using vhost. > > To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so > CONIFG_VHOST

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:01:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is > not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel > communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without > virtualization support from using vhost. > > To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:01:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is > not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel > communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without > virtualization support from using vhost. > > To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers

On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/1 ??7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote: >>> Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is >>> not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel >>> communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without >>>

On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/1 ??7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote: >>> Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is >>> not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel >>> communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without >>>

On 2020/4/1 ??9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote: >>> On 2020/4/1 ??7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>> On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote: >>>>> Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is >>>>> not necessarily

On 2020/4/1 ??9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote: >>> On 2020/4/1 ??7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>> On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote: >>>>> Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is >>>>> not necessarily

On 2020/4/1 ??10:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:13:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On 2020/4/1 ??9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>> On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote: >>>>> On 2020/4/1 ??7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>>>> On 26.03.20 15:01,

On 2020/4/1 ??10:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:13:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On 2020/4/1 ??9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>> On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote: >>>>> On 2020/4/1 ??7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>>>> On 26.03.20 15:01,

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:29:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > >From 9b3a5d23b8bf6b0a11e65e688335d782f8e6aa5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 22:17:27 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] vhost: let CONFIG_VHOST to be selected by drivers > > The defconfig on some archs enable vhost_net or vhost_vsock by > default. So

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:29:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > >From 9b3a5d23b8bf6b0a11e65e688335d782f8e6aa5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 22:17:27 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] vhost: let CONFIG_VHOST to be selected by drivers > > The defconfig on some archs enable vhost_net or vhost_vsock by > default. So

We try to keep the defconfig untouched after decoupling CONFIG_VHOST out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION in commit 20c384f1ea1a ("vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig") by enabling VHOST_MENU by default. Then the defconfigs can keep enabling CONFIG_VHOST_NET without the caring of CONFIG_VHOST. But this will leave a "CONFIG_VHOST_MENU=y" in all defconfigs and even for the ones that

We try to keep the defconfig untouched after decoupling CONFIG_VHOST out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION in commit 20c384f1ea1a ("vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig") by enabling VHOST_MENU by default. Then the defconfigs can keep enabling CONFIG_VHOST_NET without the caring of CONFIG_VHOST. But this will leave a "CONFIG_VHOST_MENU=y" in all defconfigs and even for the ones that

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:22:57AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/4/2 ??12:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:29:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > >From 9b3a5d23b8bf6b0a11e65e688335d782f8e6aa5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> > > > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 22:17:27 +0800 >