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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] dataplane: use more of the generic virtio data structures, drop hostmem |
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Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:12:53 +0100 |
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 05:07:15PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Now that the memory API is thread-safe, we can use it in
> virtio-blk-dataplane and replace hostmem.[ch]. This series does this,
> and also changes the vring API to use VirtQueueElement (with an eye
> towards migration). With this change, virtio-blk-dataplane is also safe
> against memory hot-unplug.
>
> The next step would be to replace memory_region_find with
> address_space_{map,unmap}, which handle dirtying of memory correctly.
> However these APIs are not thread-safe yet, and neither is the handling
> of dirty memory (Juan's patches may be a start here).
>
> Also, the usage of iov_discard_{front,back} may cause some complication
> when we use address_space_{map,unmap}. We may have to change a bit the
> logic in virtio-blk-dataplane to switch to address_space_{map,unmap}.
>
> If we do not want to do this intermediate step, the first three patches
> can be applied separately from the fourth.
>
> Paolo Bonzini (4):
> vring: create a common function to parse descriptors
> vring: factor common code for error exits
> dataplane: change vring API to use VirtQueueElement
> dataplane: replace hostmem with memory_region_find
>
> hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c | 86 +++++-------
> hw/virtio/dataplane/Makefile.objs | 2 +-
> hw/virtio/dataplane/hostmem.c | 183 -------------------------
> hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c | 244
> +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> include/hw/virtio/dataplane/hostmem.h | 58 --------
> include/hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.h | 9 +-
> 6 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 389 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 hw/virtio/dataplane/hostmem.c
> delete mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/dataplane/hostmem.h
Finally looked into this series. I think we should merge all patches so
we start exercising the thread-safe memory API as soon as possible in
the QEMU 2.0 release cycle.
Before merging I wanted to discuss the vring->broken case which I've
left a comment on.
Stefan
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