linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

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Message-ID: <4BA797C9.2030703@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:16:09 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	oerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>, ziteng.huang@...el.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single
 project

On 03/22/2010 06:12 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> There were a few responses to that but none really addressed those 
>> problems -
>> they mostly tried to re-define the problem and suggested that i was 
>> wrong to
>> want such capabilities and suggested various inferior approaches 
>> instead. See
>> the thread for the details - i think i covered every technical 
>> suggestion that
>> was made.
>
>
> You simply kept ignoring me when I said that if something can be kept 
> out of the kernel without impacting performance, it should be.  I 
> don't want emergency patches closing some security hole or oops in a 
> kernel symbol server.

Or rather, explained how I am a wicked microkernelist.  The herring were 
out in force today.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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