Hi Marcel, Yuval,
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Marcel Apfelbaum <mar...@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Yuval Shaia <yuval.sh...@oracle.com>
>
> PVRDMA is the QEMU implementation of VMware's paravirtualized RDMA device.
> It works with its Linux Kernel driver AS IS, no need for any special guest
> modifications.
>
> While it complies with the VMware device, it can also communicate with bare
> metal RDMA-enabled machines and does not require an RDMA HCA in the host, it
> can work with Soft-RoCE (rxe).
>
> It does not require the whole guest RAM to be pinned allowing memory
> over-commit and, even if not implemented yet, migration support will be
> possible with some HW assistance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.sh...@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <mar...@redhat.com>
> ---
[...]
> 28 files changed, 5132 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_backend.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_backend.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_backend_defs.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_cmd.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_defs.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_dev_api.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_dev_ring.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_dev_ring.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_ib_verbs.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_main.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_qp_ops.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_qp_ops.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_ring.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_rm.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_rm.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_rm_defs.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_types.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_utils.c
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/pvrdma_utils.h
> create mode 100644 hw/net/pvrdma/trace-events
[...]
Since we already have a hw/xenpv/ directory, can we place these files
into hw/vmwarepv/ rather than hw/net/pvrdma/?
A smarter move might be to create a hw/pv/ dir and have hw/pv/{xen,vmware}.
Regards,
Phil.
