[Xen-devel] RE: [kvm-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/3] virtio infrastructure

["Dor Laor" <dor.laor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow
>common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O
>mechanisms.  It will no-doubt need further enhancement.
>
>The details of probing the device are left to hypervisor-specific
>code: it simple constructs the "struct virtio_device" and hands it to
>the probe function (eg. virtnet_probe() or virtblk_probe()).
>
>The virtio drivers add and detach input and output buffers; as the
>buffers are used up their associated "used" pointers are filled in.
>
>I have written two virtio device drivers (net and block) and two
>virtio implementations (for lguest): a read-write socket-style
>implementation, and a more efficient descriptor-based implementation).
>
>Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That's the exact things I was planning to add to KVM/Linux.
All virtual I/O devices should have common interface and share the core
functionality. Since Xen PV drivers are already performance optimized
and 
feature rich, we were planning to generalize the hypervisor-specific
backend in order to reuse them.
This is a good step toward such sharing.
Cheers, Dor.

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