Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/5] Add vhost-blk support

[Asias He]

On 07/17/2012 11:09 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 04:55:06PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > [I am resending to fix the broken thread in the previous one.]
> >
> > This patchset adds vhost-blk support. vhost-blk is a in kernel virito-blk
> > device accelerator. Compared to userspace virtio-blk implementation, vhost-blk
> > gives about 5% to 15% performance improvement.
>
> Same thing as tcm_host comment:
>
> 	It seems not 100% clear whether this driver will have major
> 	userspace using it. And if not, it would be very hard to support a
> 	driver when recent userspace does not use it in the end.
>
> 	I think a good idea for 3.6 would be to make it depend on
> 	CONFIG_STAGING.  Then we don't commit to an ABI.  For this, you can add
> 	a separate Kconfig and source it from drivers/staging/Kconfig.  Maybe it
> 	needs to be in a separate directory drivers/vhost/staging/Kconfig.

OK.

> I Cc'd the list of tcm_host in the hope that you can cooperate on this.

Sure.

--
Asias


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