From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-8187-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418D798663D for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:06:34 +0000 (UTC) References: <40119ebe-04c5-ce46-e015-6e69086f2186@metux.net> From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Message-ID: <70ada7a8-7a9c-6d5f-a881-e436bd30cb9b@metux.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:06:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] Add virtio parameter server device specification Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: tl Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Hao Chen Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org List-ID: On 09.06.21 22:30, Hao Chen wrote: > > Why not directly putting 9P links into virtio devices ? >=20 > We have thought about using files to represent properties, but it turns= =20 > out we may need to subscribe to a large amount of > properties, so opening all of those files and polling is not ideal. Also= =20 > the cross-property time-order matters in our case, so we abandoned this= =20 > idea. On 9P it would just be issuing one Tread per file you're intersted in (of course, after Rread comes in, you'll have to send it again, if you wanna continue to read). How is that so different from subscriptions ? --mtx --=20 --- Hinweis: unverschl=C3=BCsselte E-Mails k=C3=B6nnen leicht abgeh=C3=B6rt und= manipuliert werden ! F=C3=BCr eine vertrauliche Kommunikation senden Sie bitte ihren GPG/PGP-Schl=C3=BCssel zu. --- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org