On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:33:39PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Rusty Russell <> writes:
> The obvious issues I want to open are:
>
> o Major rework to make PCI an appendix, and core bus-independent.
> o Update spec with changes/fixes since 0.9.5
> - This is easy where contributors are already members,
> trickier for others.
Include a complete vring reference implementation with tests? This way
more code snippets in the specification can be runnable and tested.
> Block:
> o Remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI?
> o Revisit flush/barrier semantics?
Barrier is ignored in modern QEMU virtio-blk, instead guests send the
flush command. We could deprecate or drop the barrier from the spec so
that only flush commands are used.
