[PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V4.
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Sep 9 16:08:54 PDT 2009
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Alok Kataria wrote:
>> I see your point, but the ring logic or the ABI that we use to
>> communicate between the hypervisor and guest is not shared between our
>> storage and network drivers. As a result, I don't see any benefit of
>> separating out this ring handling mechanism, on the contrary it might
>> just add some overhead of translating between various layers for our
>> SCSI driver.
>>
>
> But if you separate out the ring logic, it allows the scsi logic to be
> shared by other paravirtual device drivers. This is significant and
> important from a Linux point of view.
As someone who has been hacking on a virtio scsi prototype I don't think
it's a good idea. The vmware driver is a horrible design and I don't
think it should be merged. Besides beeing a ugly driver and ABI we
really should not support this kind of closed protocol development.
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