Can we just leave the configuration in config space, or is that undesirable?
Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> writes: >> On 03/21/2013 10:49 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> >>> Just to clarify, I expect BIOS to use it *for config access*. >>> Notification will support IO anyway because it's >>> faster on KVM, so BIOS can use it directly. >>> >> >> Ah, yes, of course. >> >> Quite frankly, I don't see any reason to support *anything else* for >> configuration, does anyone else? >> >> I thought we were talking about the doorbell/notification/kicker >> register. For I/O space especially it is highly desirable if that >can >> be in a minimal BAR (4 bytes). > >The takeaway from this seems to be that: >1) For the notification, device can supply both. >2) Since only device will know which is faster, driver should use the > first one it finds which it supports. > >My patch implied that the ISR, device config and notification could be >either. I think only the notification makes sense, as noted here. > >Have I got this right? >Rusty. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
