Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/2] KVM: add virtio-pmem driver

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Oct 20 2017 - 12:06:52 EST


On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 08:05:09AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Right, that's the same recommendation I gave.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg08404.html
>
> ...so maybe I'm misunderstanding your concern? It sounds like we're on
> the same page.

Yes, the above is exactly what I think we should do it. And in many
ways virtio seems overkill if we could just have a hypercall or doorbell
page as the queueing infrastructure in virtio shouldn't really be
needed.