From: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Cornelia Huck" <cohuck@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Marc Hartmayer" <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:21:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200625142102.1f82ae4d.pasic@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200625101935.GF1009994@redhat.com>
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:19:35 +0100
Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:04:26PM +0200, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
> > This RFC is about enabling virtio-fs on s390x. For that we need
> > + some shim code (first patch), and we need
> > + libvhost-user to deal with virtio endiannes as mandated by the spec.
> >
> > The second part is trickier, because unlike QEMU we are not certain
> > about the guest's native endianness, which is needed to handle the
> > legacy-interface appropriately. In fact, this is the reason why just
> > RFC.
> >
> > One of the open questions is whether to build separate versions, one
> > for guest little endian and one for guest big endian, or do we want
> > something like a command line option? (Digression on the libvirt
> > modeling)
>
> When you talk about big vs little endian, are you referring to TCG
> scenarios with mixed host/guest arch, or arches which can support
> either endianess, or both ? i guess it doesn't matter actually, as
> I think the latter forces a specific answer.
>
Our primary concern is big endian cpu and little endian virtio because
virto 1.0 or better. But since we talk about a lib here, everything is
possible.
> Considering that some architectures allow the guest OS to flip between
> big & little endian as they boot, libvirt cannot know what endianess
> the guest is using when it launches virtiofsd. It thus cannot pick
> between two different endianness builds of virtiofsd automatically.
> This would force the user to tell libvirt what arch the guest is using
> at the time they define the guest. This is an undesirable restriction
> for use cases where the admin of the guest OS has no direct control
> over the host config.
>
> IOW, I think the only practical answer is to have a single binary that
> automagically does the right thing at runtime according to guest
> endianess that currently is in use.
>
The problem is that AFAIK there is no way to figure out what is the right
thing at the moment. I guess QEMU should now, but not virtiofsd or
whatever userspace virtio device. But I will double check if there is
something in the protocol addressing this.
Regards,
Halil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-25 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-25 10:04 [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x Marc Hartmayer
2020-06-25 10:04 ` [RFC 1/4] virtio: add vhost-user-fs-ccw device Marc Hartmayer
2020-06-25 10:50 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-06-25 10:04 ` [RFC 2/4] libvhost-user: print invalid address on vu_panic Marc Hartmayer
2020-06-25 10:04 ` [RFC 3/4] libvhost-user: handle endianness as mandated by the spec Marc Hartmayer
2020-06-25 10:04 ` [RFC 4/4] HACK: Hard-code the libvhost-user.o-cflags for s390x Marc Hartmayer
2020-06-25 10:13 ` [RFC 0/4] Enable virtio-fs on s390x no-reply
2020-06-25 10:16 ` no-reply
2020-06-25 10:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-06-25 12:13 ` Halil Pasic
2020-06-25 10:19 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-06-25 10:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-06-25 10:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-06-25 10:46 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-06-25 11:07 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-06-25 12:21 ` Halil Pasic [this message]
2020-06-29 12:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-29 13:07 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-06-30 9:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-30 9:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-02 10:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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