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diff --git a/feedback/5.txt b/feedback/5.txt index 62143f6..4967821 100644 --- a/feedback/5.txt +++ b/feedback/5.txt @@ -5,6 +5,32 @@ Link to Mail: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/201401/msg000 Commenter name: Laura Novich <lnovich@redhat.com> Decision: +INTRODUCTION +=============== +1. Remove The entire first paragraph with the exveption of the first +sentence. +2. Replace with - A virtual device in its truest sense is not any different +from a physical device. The virtual machine sees a virtual device just as a +physical machine would see a physical one. As such, this document will treat +virtual devices as physical devices. +3. The purpose of ... +4. replace rather than using boutique to rather than using vendor-specific, +per-environment, or per-OS mechanisms. + +5. ADD -The categories described above are further defined as follows: + Straightforward: Revise last sentence to read - There aren’t any exotic +page-flipping or COW mechanisms and it functions as a normal device.[1] +6. Efficient: ADD to input and output (I/O), +7. effects from both guest and (not sure but i think you should ADD host) +device writing to the same cache + lines. +8. Standard: CHANGE TO READ: Virtio makes no assumptions about the +environment in which + it operates, beyond what is required in order to allow the bus to attach +the host device to the driver on the guest. Virtio + devices are implemented over PCI and other buses, and earlier drafts that + have been implemented on other buses not included in this specification.[2] + Proposal: diff --git a/abstract.tex b/abstract.tex @@ -21,10 +47,10 @@ index b42a0b6..186fb81 100644 The purpose of virtio and this specification is that virtual diff --git a/introduction.tex b/introduction.tex -index 5d57f78..98e1e0d 100644 +index 5d57f78..275ad98 100644 --- a/introduction.tex +++ b/introduction.tex -@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ inter-guest communication) requires copying. +@@ -13,14 +13,15 @@ inter-guest communication) requires copying. } Efficient: Virtio devices consist of rings of descriptors @@ -34,10 +60,12 @@ index 5d57f78..98e1e0d 100644 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 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 in this specification. ++ 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). |