Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc4] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

2009-10-13 Thread David Miller
From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3 From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3 Guests running on VMware hypervisors

Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5.

2009-10-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 17:30 -0700, Alok Kataria wrote: Were you still planning on renaming the driver to something less generic (like vmw_pvscsi)? Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks. I'm still

Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5.

2009-10-13 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On 10/13/09 07:35, James Bottomley wrote: Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks. I'm still curious to know what the 'p' in the name stands for. Surely this is a fully virtual driver, not a

Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5.

2009-10-13 Thread Alok Kataria
Hi, On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:45 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 10/13/09 07:35, James Bottomley wrote: Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks. I'm still curious to know what the 'p' in

SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V6.

2009-10-13 Thread Alok Kataria
Here is the V6, which addresses most of the suggestions from Chris'. Please consider this for the scsi-tree. Thanks, Alok (Hoping Sixth time's a charm :) VMware PVSCSI driver - v6. Changelog (v6-v5) - remove unneeded header file includes. - make pvscsi_dev as a static function. -

Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V6.

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Alok Kataria (akata...@vmware.com) wrote: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA. From: Alok N Kataria akata...@vmware.com This is a driver for VMware's paravirtualized SCSI device, which should improve disk performance for guests running under control of VMware hypervisors that support