netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus

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Message-ID: <4A8BA635.9010902@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:13:57 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
CC:	Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	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
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On 08/19/2009 09:40 AM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>
>    
>>> 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.
>>      
> Any why not?  (Did you notice I said "PCI compliant", i.e. over virtio-pci)
>    

Because virtio-net will have gained nothing that it didn't have before.




>> 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.
>>      
> This is not what I am advocating.
>
>    

What are you advocating?  As far as I can tell your virtio-vbus 
connector plus the vbus-kvm connector is just that.

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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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