Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751966AbbDLPC7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:02:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45361 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbbDLPC5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:02:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:02:42 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Cornelia Huck , Pawel Moll , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, Rusty Russell , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] virtio_balloon: virtio 1 support Message-ID: <20150412170141-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1427884468-23930-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1427884468-23930-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2289 Lines: 51 On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:57:35PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Virtio 1.0 doesn't include a modern balloon device. At some point we'll likely > define an incompatible interface with a different ID and different > semantics. But for now, it's not a big effort to support a transitional > balloon device: this has the advantage of supporting existing drivers, > transparently, as well as transports that don't allow mixing virtio 0 and > virtio 1 devices. And balloon is an easy device to test, so it's also useful > for people to test virtio core handling of transitional devices. > > The only interface issue is with the stats buffer, which has misaligned > fields. We could leave it as is, but this sets a bad precedent that > others might copy by mistake. > > As we need to change stats code to do byteswaps for virtio 1.0, it seems easy > to fix by prepending a 6 byte reserved field. I also had to change config > structure field types from __le32 to __u32 to match other devices. This means > we need a couple of __force tags for legacy path but that seems minor. Rusty, what are your thoughts here? How about merging this for 4.1? > changes from v2: > fix up stats endian-ness > Changes from v1: > correctly handle config space endian-ness > > Michael S. Tsirkin (6): > virtio_balloon: transitional interface > virtio: balloon might not be a legacy device > virtio_ccw: support non-legacy balloon devices > virtio_mmio: support non-legacy balloon devices > virtio_pci: support non-legacy balloon devices > virtio: drop virtio_device_is_legacy_only > > include/linux/virtio.h | 2 -- > include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 11 +++++++++-- > drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c | 10 +++------- > drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 6 ------ > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------- > drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 8 -------- > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 3 --- > 7 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) > > -- > MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/