Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-13 Thread Alok Kataria
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 16:43 -0700, Alok Kataria wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:12 -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Alok Kataria wrote: > > > I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to > > > communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between o

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-10 Thread Alok Kataria
Hi Christoph, On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 16:08 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Alok Kataria wrote: > >> I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to > >> communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-10 Thread Alok Kataria
Hi Anthony, On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:12 -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Alok Kataria wrote: > > I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to > > communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between our > > storage and network drivers. As a result, I don't see any be

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 09/09/09 16:34, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> We haven't even been successful in getting the Xen folks to present >> their work on lkml before shipping it to their users. Why would we >> expect more from VMware if we're willing to merge the Xen stuff? >> >>

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On 09/09/09 16:34, Anthony Liguori wrote: > We haven't even been successful in getting the Xen folks to present > their work on lkml before shipping it to their users. Why would we > expect more from VMware if we're willing to merge the Xen stuff? > The Xen code may be out of tree, but it ha

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Alok Kataria wrote: >> >>> I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to >>> communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between our >>> storage and network drive

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Alok Kataria wrote: >> I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to >> communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between our >> storage and network drivers. As a result, I don't see any benefit of

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Alok Kataria wrote: > I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to > communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between our > storage and network drivers. As a result, I don't see any benefit of > separating out this ring handling mechanism, on the contrary it migh

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Alok Kataria
Hi Anthony, On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:00 -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hi Alok, > > Joining this a bit late as this was just brought to my attention. It > would have been nice to CC the virtualization mailing list. Please do > in future submissions. Sure. > > Alok Kataria wrote: > > VMwar

Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hi Alok, Joining this a bit late as this was just brought to my attention. It would have been nice to CC the virtualization mailing list. Please do in future submissions. Alok Kataria wrote: > VMware PVSCSI driver - v4. > / > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pvscsi.h b/drivers/scsi/pvscsi.h > n