Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753536AbbDQJS3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:18:29 -0400 Received: from e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.106]:38952 "EHLO e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753262AbbDQJSW (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:18:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:18:13 +0200 From: Greg Kurz To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rusty Russell , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] vhost: support for cross endian guests Message-ID: <20150417111813.2b795b2c@bahia.local> In-Reply-To: <20150410101500.31843.61248.stgit@bahia.local> References: <20150410101500.31843.61248.stgit@bahia.local> Organization: IBM X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15041709-0041-0000-0000-000003F406AB Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2302 Lines: 64 On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:15:00 +0200 Greg Kurz wrote: > Hi, > > This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host > have a different endianness. > > Patch 7 got rewritten according to Cornelia's and Michael's comments. I have > also introduced patch 8 that brings BE vnet headers support to tun/macvtap. > > This series is enough to have vhost_net working flawlessly. I could > succesfully reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and vice-versa on ppc64 > and ppc64le hosts. > Michael, I am ready to post v5 with the changes suggested by Cornelia... Do you have any extra comments on this v4 ? -- Greg > --- > > Greg Kurz (8): > virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper > tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper > macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian() helper > vringh: introduce vringh_is_little_endian() helper > vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helper > virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors > vhost: feature to set the vring endianness > macvtap/tun: add VNET_BE flag > > > drivers/net/Kconfig | 12 ++++++ > drivers/net/macvtap.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > drivers/net/tun.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 10 +++++ > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 25 ++++++++++--- > include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h | 24 +++++++----- > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 19 +++++++--- > include/linux/vringh.h | 19 +++++++--- > include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 2 + > include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 9 +++++ > 11 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Virtualization mailing list > Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization > -- 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/