netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

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Message-Id: <49D473EA020000C700056627@lucius.provo.novell.com>
Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:14:34 -0600
From:	"Patrick Mullaney" <pmullaney@...ell.com>
To:	<avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	<anthony@...emonkey.ws>, <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	<herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"Gregory Haskins" <GHaskins@...ell.com>,
	"Peter Morreale" <PMorreale@...ell.com>, <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	<agraf@...e.de>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:27 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:

> 
> virtio is a stable ABI.
> 
> > However, theres still the possibility we can make this work in an ABI
> > friendly way with cap-bits, or other such features.  For instance, the
> > virtio-net driver could register both with pci and vbus-proxy and
> > instantiate a device with a slightly different ops structure for each or
> > something.  Alternatively we could write a host-side shim to expose vbus
> > devices as pci devices or something like that.
> >   
> 
> Sounds complicated...
> 

IMO, it doesn't sound anymore complicated than making virtio support the
concepts already provided by vbus/venet-tap driver. Isn't there already
precedent for alternative approaches co-existing and having the users
decide which is the most appropriate for their use case? Switching
drivers in order to improve latency for a certain class of applications
would seem like something latency sensitive users would be more than
willing to do. I'd like to point out 2 things. Greg has offered help
in moving virtio into the vbus infrastructure. The vbus infrastructure
is a large part of what is being proposed here.

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