Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:21:42 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] Virtio-over-PCIe on non-MIC |
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 04:19:06PM +0100, Vincent Whitchurch wrote: > On the RC, a vop-host-backend driver (PCI driver) sets up some shared > memory area which the RC and the endpoint can use to communicate the > location of the MIC device descriptors and other information such as the > MSI address. It implements vop callbacks to allow the vop framework to > obtain the address of the MIC descriptors and send/receive interrupts > to/from the guest.
Why would we require any work on the RC / host side? A properly setup software controlled virtio device should just show up as a normal PCIe device, and the virtio-pci device should bind to it.
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