linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen: don't require virtio with grants for non-PV guests

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Message-ID: <ab0653bc-7728-e24c-5d83-78cee135528c@suse.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:53:54 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: don't require virtio with grants for non-PV guests

On 15.06.22 13:54, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 01:39:01PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> No, it doesn't. I'm working on a qemu patch series enabling the qemu
>> based backends to support grants with virtio. The code is working fine
>> on x86, too (apart from the fact that the backends aren't ready yet).
> 
> The code right now in mainline only ever sets the ops for DMA.  So
> I can't see how you could make it work.

Ah, you are right. I was using a guest with an older version of the series.
Sorry for the noise.


Juergen

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