netdev - Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

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Message-ID: <4B312155.7040308@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:43:17 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

On 12/22/2009 09:41 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>
>> It means that kvm locking suddenly affects more of the kernel.
>>
>>      
> Thats ok.  This would only be w.r.t. devices that are bound to the KVM
> instance anyway, so they better know what they are doing (and they do).
>
>    

It's okay to the author of that device.  It's not okay to the kvm 
developers who are still evolving the locking and have to handle all 
devices that use xinterface.

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

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