linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

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Date:	Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:59:37 -0500
From:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org, joro@...tes.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, asias.hejun@...il.com, gorcunov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool

On 04/08/2011 02:20 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> An example is ioport_ops.  This maps directly to
>> ioport_{read,write}_table in QEMU.  Then you use ioport__register() to
>> register entries in this table similar register_ioport_{read,write}() in
>> QEMU.
>>
>> The use of a struct is a small improvement but the fundamental design is
>> flawed because it models a view of hardware where all devices are
>> directly connected to the CPU.  This is not how hardware works at all.
> Not sure if I've the whole picture on this but I see no answer to your
> email and I found your remark above the most interesting. This is
> because I thought the whole point of a native kvm tool was to go all
> the paravirt way to provide max performance and maybe also depend on
> vhost as much as possible.

Yeah, if that's the goal, skip all the mini-BIOS junk and just rely on a 
PV kernel in the guest.

I think a mini userspace that assumes that we can change the guest 
kernel and avoids having a ton of complexity to do things like CMOS 
emulation would be a really interesting thing to do.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
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