[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] news: Update for libvirt 6.0.0

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Jan 13 13:00:14 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 13:35 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 1/13/20 1:16 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > CC'ing Michal who contributed the patches. Can either you or him
> > please come up with a superior replacement for the above? Thanks!
> 
> How about this:
> 
>        <change>
>          <summary>
>            qemu: Allow accessing NVMe disks directly
>          </summary>
>          <description>
> Before this release there were two ways to configure a NVMe disk for a 
> domain. The first was using <disk/> with the <source/> 
> pointing to the <code>/dev/nvmeXXXX</code>. The other was using PCI 
> assignment via <hostdev/> element. Both have their disadvantages: 
> the former adds latency of file system and block layers of the host 
> kernel, the latter prohibits domain migration. In this release the third 
> way of configuring NVMe disk is added which combines the advantages and 
> drops disadvantages of the previous two ways. It's accessible via 
> <disk type='nvme'/>.
>          </description>
>        </change>

Looks good. Care to send that as a separate patch, and possibly give
a R-b to this one (with the NVMe hunk dropped, of course)?

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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