Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-29 Thread Anthony Liguori
I think that it would be nicer to implement the p9 transport on top of virtio instead of directly on top of PCI. I think your PCI transport would make a pretty nice start of a PCI virtio transport though. Regards, Anthony Liguori On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:

[kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
From: Latchesar Ionkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: +config NET_9P_PCI + depends on NET_9P + tristate 9p PCI Shared Memory Transport (Experimental) shouldn't this depend on CONFIG_PCI? - This

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar concept. +#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_9P 0x5002

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
On 8/28/07, Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 8/28/07, Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] 9p: add KVM/QEMU pci transport

2007-08-28 Thread Dor Laor
This adds a shared memory transport for a synthetic 9p device for paravirtualized file system support under KVM/QEMU. Nice driver. I'm hoping we can do a virtio driver using a similar concept. Yes. I'm looking at the patches from Dor now, it should be pretty straight forward. The PCI is