linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:41:22 -0500
From:	Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

On 12/22/09 2:38 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 09:32 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> xinterface, as it turns out, is a great KVM interface for me and easy to
>> extend, all without conflicting with the changes in upstream.  The old
>> way was via the kvm ioctl interface, but that sucked as the ABI was
>> always moving.  Where is the problem?  ioeventfd still works fine as
>> it is.
>>    
> 
> It means that kvm locking suddenly affects more of the kernel.
> 

Thats ok.  This would only be w.r.t. devices that are bound to the KVM
instance anyway, so they better know what they are doing (and they do).

-Greg


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