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

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Jan 13 13:57:34 UTC 2020


On 1/13/20 2:00 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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)?
> 

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Michal




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