Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:06:19 +0200 Greg Kurz wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:19:26 +0200 > Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:29:42 +0200 > > Greg Kurz wrote: > > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h > > > index bb6a5b4..b980b53 100644 > > > --

Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:19:26 +0200 Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:29:42 +0200 > Greg Kurz wrote: > > > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the > > feature availability is contro

Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:29:42 +0200 Greg Kurz wrote: > This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement > legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the > feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set > by default). > > The vq->is

[PATCH v5 7/8] vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices

This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set by default). The vq->is_le boolean field is added to cache the endianness to be used for