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Message-ID: <4B3725CE.8040004@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:15:58 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net"
<alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33
On 12/23/2009 11:21 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> That said, you are still incorrect. With what I proposed, the model
> will run as an in-kernel vbus device, and no longer run in userspace.
> It would therefore improve virtio-net as I stated, much in the same
> way vhost-net or venet-tap do today.
>
That can't work. virtio-net has its own ABI on top of virtio, for
example it prepends a header for TSO information. Maybe if you disable
all features it becomes compatible with venet, but that cripples it.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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