From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] vhost: enable any layout feature
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:48:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160927124818.3a37c7c1@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160927031158.GA25823@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:11:58 +0800
Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:24:55PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:01:58AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > I assume that if using Version 1 that the bit will be ignored
>
> Yes, but I will just quote what you just said: what if the guest
> virtio device is a legacy device? I also gave my reasons in another
> email why I consistently set this flag:
>
> - we have to return all features we support to the guest.
>
> We don't know the guest is a modern or legacy device. That means
> we should claim we support both: VERSION_1 and ANY_LAYOUT.
>
> Assume guest is a legacy device and we just set VERSION_1 (the current
> case), ANY_LAYOUT will never be negotiated.
>
> - I'm following the way Linux kernel takes: it also set both features.
Agreed, just do what the Linux kernel does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 6:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] enables vhost/virtio " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] vhost: enable " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 18:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-26 19:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-27 3:11 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-27 19:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-09-27 19:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-28 2:28 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-29 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [Qemu-devel] " Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-29 17:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-29 20:05 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-29 20:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-29 21:23 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-30 12:05 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-09-30 19:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 4:05 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 4:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 4:22 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 4:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 12:40 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-10 14:42 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 14:54 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-11 6:04 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-11 6:39 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-11 6:49 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-03 14:20 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-10 3:37 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 3:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 3:59 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 4:16 ` Wang, Zhihong
2016-10-10 4:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 4:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-11 6:57 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-12 3:21 ` Yuanhan Liu
[not found] ` <F5DF4F0E3AFEF648ADC1C3C33AD4DBF16C2409EB@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2016-10-13 2:52 ` Yang, Zhiyong
2016-10-10 3:50 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-09 23:20 ` [dpdk-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 3:03 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-10 3:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-10 3:10 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/virtio: " Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 18:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-29 18:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-29 18:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-11-10 15:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] enables vhost/virtio " Michael S. Tsirkin
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