Re: [virtio-dev] repost: af_packet vs virtio (was packed ring layout proposal v2)

2017-08-06 Thread Adam Tao
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:50:03PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 08:54:27PM -0700, Steven Luong wrote: > > * Descriptor ring: > > > > Guest adds descriptors with unique index values and DESC_HW set in > > flags. > > Host overwrites used descriptors with co

Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC] virtio-iommu version 0.4

2017-08-15 Thread Adam Tao
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 07:19:25PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > This is the continuation of my proposal for virtio-iommu, the para- > virtualized IOMMU. Here is a summary of the changes since last time [1]: > > * The virtio-iommu document now resembles an actual specification. It is > s

Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH v13 0/5] Virtio-balloon Enhancement

2017-08-15 Thread Adam Tao
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 02:38:14PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > This patch series enhances the existing virtio-balloon with the following > new features: > 1) fast ballooning: transfer ballooned pages between the guest and host in > chunks using sgs, instead of one by one; and > 2) free_page_vq: a new