From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030208AbXAKIDu (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:03:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030206AbXAKIDu (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:03:50 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([62.219.232.206]:57824 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030211AbXAKIDt (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:03:49 -0500 Message-ID: <45A5EF63.3040601@qumranet.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:47 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Stable kvm userspace interface References: <45A39A97.5060807@qumranet.com> <45A39D0D.7090007@garzik.org> <200701110834.43800.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200701110834.43800.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I still think that in the long term, we should migrate to > new system calls and a special file system for kvm, which > might be non-mountable. The inode-per-vm and inode-per-vcpu approach sort-of-implies a nonmountable special filesystem, so with the proposed change, we'll be halfway there. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC] Stable kvm userspace interface Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:47 +0200 Message-ID: <45A5EF63.3040601@qumranet.com> References: <45A39A97.5060807@qumranet.com> <45A39D0D.7090007@garzik.org> <200701110834.43800.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Jeff Garzik Return-path: To: Arnd Bergmann In-Reply-To: <200701110834.43800.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I still think that in the long term, we should migrate to > new system calls and a special file system for kvm, which > might be non-mountable. The inode-per-vm and inode-per-vcpu approach sort-of-implies a nonmountable special filesystem, so with the proposed change, we'll be halfway there. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV