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Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by wolf550e on Saturday April 20, 2019 @01:38PM (#19707764)
A doc laying out the rationale for the choice of primitives in virtio-crypto [1] would be very nice. The choice is weird. Also, I couldn't find links to actual specs of the named supported primitives, seems we should understand what they mean by name alone.

1 - https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/cs01/virtio-v...

Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by zokier on Saturday April 20, 2019 @04:35PM (#19708725)
I see pretty high overlap with dpdk cryptodev primitives[1]. If I had to guess, they are related and probably based on what actual hardware provides and that is known to be used in some key applications (e.g. 4G/LTE infrastructure).

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-18.11/cryptodevs/overview.html

Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by jws on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:37PM (#19707452)
I wonder what has happened with the VirtFS filesystem over virtio device. This presented a 9p interface directly in virtio to share filesystems between machines. The only reference I see in the spec is the 0x1009 device id being allocated to the 9P transport.
Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by tjfontaine on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:59PM (#19707563)
I believe some of the thinking has shifted toward virtio-fs[1] instead of the 9p/network oriented models. Though this requires hypervisor locality for sharing among VMs.

[1] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/

Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by babkayaga on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:53PM (#19710095)
At some level yes. But virtio 9pfs is still widely used. It's just that no one yet bothered writing up the spec.
Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by FredFS456 on Saturday April 20, 2019 @11:21AM (#19706987)
What's changed?
Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by ingve on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:12PM (#19707286)
Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by babkayaga on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:56PM (#19710108)
If you go here: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/cs01/ you will find a version with changes from v1.0 cs04 highlighted. In case you participated in a public review, changes since the public review draft are also listed in the specification itself.