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

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Message-ID: <4B312042.7010804@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:38:42 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.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 12/22/2009 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.

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