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authorrusty <rusty@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652>2014-02-10 10:30:46 +0000
committerrusty <rusty@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652>2014-02-10 10:30:46 +0000
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This document describes the specifications of the “virtio” family of
devices. These devices are found in virtual environments, yet by
design they are not all that different from physical devices, and this
-document treats them as such. This allows the guest to use standard
+document treats them as such. This similarity allows the guest to use standard
drivers and discovery mechanisms.
The purpose of virtio and this specification is that virtual
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}
Efficient: Virtio devices consist of rings of descriptors
- for input and output, which are neatly separated to avoid cache
+ for both input and output, which are neatly laid out to avoid cache
effects from both driver and device writing to the same cache
lines.
Standard: Virtio makes no assumptions about the environment in which
- it operates, beyond supporting the bus attaching the device. Virtio
+ it operates, beyond supporting the bus to which device is attached.
+ In this specification, virtio
devices are implemented over PCI and other buses, and earlier drafts
- been implemented on other buses not included in this spec.
+ have been implemented on other buses not included here.
\footnote{The Linux implementation further separates the PCI virtio code
from the specific virtio drivers: these drivers are shared with
the non-PCI implementations (currently lguest and S/390).