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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:06:38 +0200 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>, "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 06:40 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@...hat.com> wrote: > >>> 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. >> > Well, if it's not being a "wicked microkernelist" then what is it? > I know I'm bad. > Performance is hardly the only motivation to put things into the > kernel. Think kernel mode-setting and devtmpfs (with the ironic twist > of original devfs being removed from the kernel) here, for example. > Motivations include privileged device access, needing to access physical memory, security, and keeping the userspace interface sane. There are others. I don't think any of them hold here. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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