Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 16:05:38 Rusty Russell wrote: > >> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 06:29:14 Hollis Blanchard wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:31:35 Rusty Russell wrote: >>> >>>> We may still regret not doing *everything* little-endian, but this >>>> doesn't make it worse. >>>> >>> Hmm, why *don't* we just do everything LE, including the ring? >>> >> Mainly because when requirements are in doubt, simplicity wins, I think. >> > > Well, I think the definition of simplicity is up for debate in this > case... "LE everywhere" is much simpler than "it depends", IMHO. >
You couldn't use the vringfd direct ring mapping optimization in KVM for PPC without teaching the kernel to access a vring in LE format. I'm pretty sure the later would get rejected on LKML anyway for vringfd as a generic mechanism. Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
