From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mtosatti@redhat.com,
Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:16:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502181607.GA2827@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209750562292-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
Glauber Costa wrote:
> This patch introduces QEMUAccel, a placeholder for function pointers
> that aims at helping qemu to abstract accelerators such as kqemu and
> kvm (actually, the 'accelerator' name was proposed by avi kivity, since
> he loves referring to kvm that way).
Just a little thought...
Maybe 'VCPU' would be a clearer name? QEMU provides its own VCPU, and
KQEMU+QEMU also provide one toegether. While KVM provides essentially
one or more whole VCPUs by itself and uses QEMU's drivers only doesn't
it?
-- Jamie
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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mtosatti@redhat.com,
Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:16:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502181607.GA2827@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209750562292-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
Glauber Costa wrote:
> This patch introduces QEMUAccel, a placeholder for function pointers
> that aims at helping qemu to abstract accelerators such as kqemu and
> kvm (actually, the 'accelerator' name was proposed by avi kivity, since
> he loves referring to kvm that way).
Just a little thought...
Maybe 'VCPU' would be a clearer name? QEMU provides its own VCPU, and
KQEMU+QEMU also provide one toegether. While KVM provides essentially
one or more whole VCPUs by itself and uses QEMU's drivers only doesn't
it?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 17:49 [PATCH 0/4] Presenting accelerators for better abstraction Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] [PATCH] exec interrupt made abstract by accel_yyy() Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] [PATCH] init env made accel driver Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] [PATCH] wrap cache flushing functions into accel drivers Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 18:16 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-05-02 18:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver Jamie Lokier
2008-05-02 19:49 ` Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 19:49 ` Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 20:16 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-02 20:16 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-02 20:17 ` Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 20:17 ` Glauber Costa
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