Il 19/11/2012 11:38, Kevin Wolf ha scritto: > Am 16.11.2012 07:22, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> >> wrote: >>> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> writes: >>> >>>> The virtio-blk-data-plane feature is easy to integrate into >>>> hw/virtio-blk.c. The data plane can be started and stopped similar to >>>> vhost-net. >>>> >>>> Users can take advantage of the virtio-blk-data-plane feature using the >>>> new -device virtio-blk-pci,x-data-plane=on property. >>> >>> I don't think this should be a property of virtio-blk-pci but rather a >>> separate device. >> >> The hw/virtio-blk.c code still needs to be used since >> hw/dataplane/virtio-blk.c is only a subset of virtio-blk. >> >> So we're talking about adding a new virtio-blk-data-plane-pci device >> type to hw/virtio-pci.c? > > A new device sounds wrong to me, it's the very same thing from a guest > perspective. Which makes me wonder if in the final version it shouldn't > be a -blockdev option rather than a -device one...
In the final version it shouldn't be an option at all. :) Paolo
