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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:48:49 +0300 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com> CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects On 08/19/2009 08:36 AM, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> If virtio net in guest could be improved instead, everyone would >> benefit. >> > So if I whip up a virtio-net backend for vbus with a PCI compliant > connector, you are happy? > This doesn't improve virtio-net in any way. >> I am doing this, and I wish more people would join. Instead, >> you change ABI in a incompatible way. >> > Only by choice of my particular connector. The ABI is a function of the > connector design. So one such model is to terminate the connector in > qemu, and surface the resulting objects as PCI devices. I choose not to > use this particular design for my connector that I am pushing upstream > because I am of the opinion that I can do better by terminating it in > the guest directly as a PV optimized bus. However, both connectors can > theoretically coexist peacefully. > virtio already supports this model; see lguest and s390. Transporting virtio over vbus and vbus over something else doesn't gain anything over directly transporting virtio over that something else. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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