Re: when to use virtio (was Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Introduce the microvm machine type)

[David Hildenbrand]

On 25.09.19 13:24, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 25/09/19 12:50, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Can't tell if there might be extensions (if virtio-mem ever comes to
>> life ;) ) that might make use of asynchronous communication. Especially,
>> there might be asynchronous/multiple guest->host requests at some point
>> (e.g., "I'm nearly out of memory, please send help").
> 
> Okay, this makes sense.  I'm almost sold on it. :)
> 
> Config space also makes sense, though what you really need is the config
> space interrupt, rather than config space per se.
> 

Right, and feature negotiation is yet another nice-to-have thingy in the
virtio world :)

> Paolo


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb