Here is the v3 release of the patch series for a generalized PV-IO infrastructure. It has v2 plus the following changes:
1) The big changes is that PVBUS is now based on the bus/device_register APIs. The code is inspired by the lguest_bus except it has been decoupled from the hypervisor. Also, the "device" object provides an actual interface to the device which yeilds a tight-coupling to the underlying device provider. This offers some interesting features as evident in patch #4 where we register some in-host virtual devices for the purposes of testing the IOQ/PVBUS/IOQNET infrastructure. 2) The KVM specific portions of the code have been adapted to the new model and hotplug support has been added. The test harness in #4 has helped to find some bugs. Some more remain that I will fix after this mail goes out. There is also some work to do with the "shutdown" portion of the code (e.g. you will see a bus panic if you try to rmmod a pvbus device/driver right now). Note that the first four patches are not specific to KVM. Once we get a better picture of what we can use, I will obviouly start cross posting those particular patches to LKML so they can be reviewed by a broader community. For now I will keep it KVM since their status is in flux. I am looking forward to seeing Dor's virtio based patch series. Please send it to me ASAP, even if its not complete or even compiling. Regards, -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
