Hi Wei, could you please explain why/how you would have done the project differently now and why these patches are not "good"? From my conversation with Linda, I understood that her code is "Independent of virtio except the 9pvirtio specific code, which is used extensively."
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:50:29PM -0700, Linda wrote: > > > > > > On 11/17/2015 11:35 AM, Neil Sikka wrote: > > >How does Linda's work relate to Wei's patches available here (I didnt > see > > >them in Xen-4.6.0): > > > > > >http://downloads.xen.org/Wiki/VirtioOnXen/qemu-01-xenpv-exec.patch > > >http://downloads.xen.org/Wiki/VirtioOnXen/qemu-02-virtio-for-pv.patch > > I'll let Wei answer this. > > That wasn't upstreamed at all. Admittedly that was done when I didn't > know much about Xen. I would have done that project differently > nowadays. > > And to clarify things: virtio on Xen is a different project than 9pfs on > Xen. 9pfs is not tied to virtio in any way. Just that there is currently > only virtio-9pfs available. > > So to make 9pfs work on Xen, there are at least two ways. One is to make > virtio work on Xen so that we subsequently get virtio-9pfs (along with > all other virtio devices); the other is to implement xen-9pfs (I made up > this name). > > I'm not sure whether you're interested in virtio on Xen or just 9pfs. > > > > > > >Also, since 9p is being worked on, which is a filesystem that should be > > >implemented in a kernel rather than a hypervisor, are you looking to > > >contribute this driver to the Linux kernel? > > What I did was write new kernel routines and new Qemu routines, as well > as > > I think Neil was talking about the "new kernel routines". Yes, that > would need to be upstreamed eventually. > > Wei. > > > modifying a few existing Qemu files. The initialization is currently > done > > manually by modifying xenstore. This is the only code that properly > belongs > > in the hypervisor. > > > > I hope this clarifies things. > > > > Linda > -- My Blog: http://www.neilscomputerblog.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @neilsikka
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