Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761504AbXKHPOp (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756118AbXKHPOi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:38 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:59234 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755715AbXKHPOi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:38 -0500 Message-ID: <473327A1.9080907@qumranet.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:13:37 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Liguori CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device References: <11944899922822-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11944900141678-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11944900152750-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11944900163817-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4732A8E5.6090307@qumranet.com> <47331531.8070709@us.ibm.com> <47331F47.70304@qumranet.com> <473325EB.5090907@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <473325EB.5090907@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 31 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> If a pci device is capable of dma (or issuing interrupts), it will be >> useless with pv pci. > > Hrm, I think we may be talking about different things. Are you > thinking that the driver I posted allows you to do PCI pass-through > over virtio? That's not what it is. > > The driver I posted is a virtio implementation that uses a PCI > device. This lets you use virtio-blk and virtio-net under KVM. The > alternative to this virtio PCI device would be a virtio transport > built with hypercalls like lguest has. I choose a PCI device because > it ensured that each virtio device showed up like a normal PCI device. > > Am I misunderstanding what you're asking about? > No, I completely misunderstood the patch. Should review complete patches rather than random hunks. Sorry for the noise. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - 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/