Re: [PATCH 24/40] Staging: hv: storvsc: On I/O get the correct IDEdevice

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jul 01 2011 - 04:17:34 EST


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:15:54PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> That is what I did initially. Then looking at the way we were handling scsi devices
> where each scsi controller configured for the guest results in an emulated HBA
> (scsi host) in the guest and all the block devices under a given controller are
> handled through this one host, I decided to mimic a similar structure - one
> scsi host for all the block devices configured as an IDE device.
>
> I can go back to my earlier implementation with one host per disk.

Was there any downside you noticed from using one host per emulated
disk?
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