On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:51:34 +0100
Halil Pasic <> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:58:07 +0100
> Cornelia Huck <> wrote:
>
> > Tags: inv, virtio
> > From: Cornelia Huck <>
> > To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <>
> > Cc: , , Halil Pasic <>
> > Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH 1/3] shared memory: Define shared memory regions
> > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:58:07 +0100
> > Sender: <>
> > Organization: Red Hat GmbH
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:37:56 +0000
> > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> wrote:
> >
> > > * Cornelia Huck () wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:06:25 +0000
> > > > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > So these are all moving this 1/3 forward - has anyone got comments on
> > > > > the transport specific implementations?
> > > >
> > > > No comment on pci or mmio, but I've hacked something together for ccw.
> > > > Basically, one sense-type ccw for discovery and a control-type ccw for
> > > > activation of the regions (no idea if we really need the latter), both
> > > > available with ccw revision 3.
> > > >
> > > > No idea whether this will work this way, though...
> > >
> > > That sounds (from a shm perspective) reasonable; can I ask why the
> > > 'activate' is needed?
> >
> > The activate interface is actually what I'm most unsure about; maybe
> > Halil can chime in.
>
> Sorry, I unfortunately kept deferring looking into this. Will have to do
> some more thinking. I promise to give you my feedback by Monday end of
> day if not sooner. Does that work with you?
Sure; please also take a look at DavidH's proposal.
