Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/11] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 04:39:56PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> This patchset aims to get us some way to implement virtio-1 compliant
> and transitional devices in qemu. Branch available at
> 
> git://github.com/cohuck/qemu virtio-1
> 
> I've mainly focused on:
> - endianness handling
> - extended feature bits
> - virtio-ccw new/changed commands

So issues identified so far:
- devices not converted yet should not advertize 1.0
- blk has some features removed under 1.0,
  specifically CONFIG_WCE.
- net header is different for 1.0


> Thanks go to Thomas for some preliminary work in this area.
> 
> I've been able to start guests both with and without the virtio-1 patches
> in the linux guest patchset, with virtio-net and virtio-blk devices (with
> and without dataplane). virtio-ccw only :) vhost, migration and loads of
> other things have been ignored for now.
> 
> I'd like to know whether I walk into the right direction, so let's consider
> this as a starting point.
> 
> Cornelia Huck (8):
>   virtio: cull virtio_bus_set_vdev_features
>   virtio: support more feature bits
>   s390x/virtio-ccw: fix check for WRITE_FEAT
>   virtio: introduce legacy virtio devices
>   virtio: allow virtio-1 queue layout
>   dataplane: allow virtio-1 devices
>   s390x/virtio-ccw: support virtio-1 set_vq format
>   s390x/virtio-ccw: enable virtio 1.0
> 
> Thomas Huth (3):
>   linux-headers/virtio_config: Update with VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1
>   s390x/css: Add a callback for when subchannel gets disabled
>   s390x/virtio-ccw: add virtio set-revision call
> 
>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c          |    7 +-
>  hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c     |    3 +-
>  hw/block/virtio-blk.c               |    9 +-
>  hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c         |    9 +-
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c                 |   38 ++++---
>  hw/s390x/css.c                      |   12 +++
>  hw/s390x/css.h                      |    1 +
>  hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c          |    9 +-
>  hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c               |  188 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.h               |    7 +-
>  hw/scsi/vhost-scsi.c                |    7 +-
>  hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c     |    2 +-
>  hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c               |    8 +-
>  hw/virtio/Makefile.objs             |    2 +-
>  hw/virtio/dataplane/Makefile.objs   |    2 +-
>  hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c         |   95 ++++++++++--------
>  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c          |    8 +-
>  hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c              |   23 +----
>  hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c             |    9 +-
>  hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c              |   13 +--
>  hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c              |    2 +-
>  hw/virtio/virtio.c                  |   51 +++++++---
>  include/hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.h |   64 +++++++++++-
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-access.h   |    4 +
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h      |   10 +-
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio.h          |   34 +++++--
>  linux-headers/linux/virtio_config.h |    3 +
>  27 files changed, 442 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)
> 
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