Am 20.11.2012 13:37, schrieb Daniel P. Berrange: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:31:52PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> 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. >> >> The x-data-plane name was chosen because at this stage the feature is >> experimental and likely to see changes in the future. > > Can you give some indication of how it is likely to change, since > this has a bearing on any libvirt use of this feature ?
I suppose the intended semantics is "libvirt, don't touch this!" Maybe we could document the x-... prefix for experimental features that may be changed in incompatible ways or removed in future versions, and that no management tools should use. Kevin
