Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 8/8] vmport: Add VMware all ring hack

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/07/2015 15:08, Don Slutz wrote:
> >>>
> >> Creating it at the pc level and propagating makes code
> >> messy but I'd go along with it if it made sense from
> >> user's point of view, but it does not seem to make sense:
> >> to me this looks more like a CPU feature than a machine property.
> >> Or the property of the vmport rpc device that you created.
> > 
> > Well this is not a clear area.  It does look more like a CPU feature.  I
> > went with a machine feature because that is where "vmport" currently is.
> 
> I think it should be a vmport property.
> 
> It would be cleaner to implement it using the MemTxAttrs mechanism, but
> for KVM I'm afraid it would be too slow (and the slowness would affect
> all I/O accesses, not just vmport ones, unless really ugly hacks are done).
> 
> Paolo

Can it ever be implemented for kvm? I couldn't think of a clean way to do it.

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