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

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Message-ID: <84144f021003221110p79db476fpae25f6997b61b0b9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:10:50 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	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>,
	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>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single 
	project

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:
>> That said, pulling 400 KLOC of code into the kernel sounds really
>> excessive. Would we need all that if we just do native virtualization
>> and no actual emulation?
>
> What is native virtualization and no actual emulation?

What I meant with "actual emulation" was running architecture A code
on architecture B what was qemu's traditional use case. So the
question was how much of the 400 KLOC do we need for just KVM on all
the architectures that it supports?
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