From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>
Subject: Re: Disk naming (Was Re: [PATCH] Guest boot loadersupport [1/2])
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:45:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42602804.2000001@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504152114.55641.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Mark Williamson wrote:
>>Maybe reuse the loopback code? Maybe it has an abstract device->file
>>conversion group of functions/structures.
>>
>>
>
>Arguably the ideal in-kernel solution is to fix the loopback driver itself.
>
>
I agree. There's no reason to special case files over other block devices.
>I'm not sure it would, the blocktap library is designed for this sort of
>thing. From what Andy says there is actually already a tool to do it, which
>might be worth investigating further.
>
>
All the read/writes for a block device go to userspace when using
blocktap right? Has any performance testing been done?
>Cheers,
>Mark
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 20:43 Disk naming (Was Re: [PATCH] Guest boot loadersupport [1/2]) Ian Pratt
2005-04-14 20:52 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-04-14 21:59 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-04-14 22:10 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 1:51 ` Andrew Theurer
2005-04-15 13:32 ` Philip R Auld
2005-04-14 23:24 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-14 23:42 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-14 23:43 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 16:18 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 16:43 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 17:33 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 17:33 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 17:55 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 17:56 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 20:08 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 20:14 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 20:45 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2005-04-15 18:02 ` Andrew Warfield
2005-04-15 17:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-04-15 20:07 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 20:16 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 20:46 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 20:29 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-15 21:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-04-15 20:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-04-15 20:48 ` Adam Heath
2005-04-15 20:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-04-15 13:58 ` Philip R Auld
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2005-04-15 21:44 Disk naming (Was Re: [PATCH] Guest boot loadersupport[1/2]) Ian Pratt
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