On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:46:11PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> v3:
> * Remove notifications virtqueue, it's unimplemented and can be added when
> needed [Miklos]
> * Add Security Considerations and Live Migration Considerations sections
> [Michael]
> v2:
> * Clean up core virtio file system device spec
> * Add DAX window
>
> These patches add the virtio file system device, which is based on Linux FUSE
> but includes the DAX window extension. Similar to virtio-scsi, which
> transports SCSI commands, virtio-fs transports FUSE requests and the protocol
> documentation is not duplicated here.
I think I prefer virtio-fuse as a name. Let's be a bit more
specific: we might want to add more filesystem devices later on.
> The DAX window allows file contents to be accessed directly from shared memory.
> This eliminates copying of data, reduces the number of vmexits, and reduces the
> guest's memory footprint. It also allows coherent mmap MAP_SHARED semantics
> between guests on the same host.
>
> Stefan Hajnoczi (2):
> content: add virtio file system device
> virtio-fs: add DAX window
>
> content.tex | 3 +
> introduction.tex | 3 +
> virtio-fs.tex | 221 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 227 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 virtio-fs.tex
>
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