On 2017/10/9 19:17, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Halil Pasic [mailto:pa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 7:05 PM
>>
>> On 10/09/2017 11:22 AM, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
>>> The next patch refactors make sense to me,
>>> but why do we need to decouple the virtio-crypto.h?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I wanted to be able to freely change the host side and test with an unchanged
>> guest side, that's why I've done that. It's just for testing. I had to do 
>> that
>> because we don't have a mux capable linux driver. Neither of these patches is
>> intended for inclusion. I'm just trying to make a point with them: we can
>> make this substantially simpler (compared to this RFC).
>>
> I see.
> 
>> So how do we proceed here? It would be nice to see a cleaned up version of
> 
> Maybe Longpeng can apply your test patches in the following patch set when
> he has time. @Longpeng
> 

OK, I'll take Halil's approach in the following patch set. But I think the spec
is more important in the current, hope Halil would give more useful 
suggestions. :)

>> this series soon. If I recall correctly there were also other things which
>> can be done in a less convoluted manner.
>>
> Oh? Which things?
> 
>>>> The basic idea behind the whole thing is that tinging about the requests 
>>>> put
>>>> on the virtqueues in terms of just complicates things unnecessarily.
>>>>
>>>> I could guess I will post the interesting part as a reply to this and the 
>>>> less
>>>> interesting part (decoupling) as an attachment. You are supposed to apply
>> first
>>>> the attachment then the part after the scissors line.
>>>>
>>>> Of course should you could respin the series preferably with the test
>>>> included I can rebase my stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know about your opinion.
>>>>
>>> Thanks for your work, Halil. What's your opinion about virtio crypto spec 
>>> v20?
>>
>> I'm on it. I've already started witting on Friday but things turned out a 
>> bit more
>> interesting that expected. So I've postponed to today. Of course the two 
>> things
>> are
>> connected. I will try to give some feedback today.
>>
> Sounds good.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Gonglei
> 


-- 
Regards,
Longpeng(Mike)


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