From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754042AbZHQOQp (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:16:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752666AbZHQOQp (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:16:45 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f173.google.com ([209.85.211.173]:62286 "EHLO mail-yw0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752648AbZHQOQn (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:16:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=uNBk7D2p+zziKWdTDVEX/VQn2acSe1AhMB6SneA/bnw4V+bxfx7GalTUxSewoLSmtt GZ8XRPEsCvxi0eXqEw9DLqc5L9rq67DKNaQYKmmTiHjna7As4yOQJtofkJ35PSKDbd6E FTAcaHGId1NdGn9HibLAipM0mKMRGG8JlQdBo= Message-ID: <4A896648.9040707@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:16:40 -0400 From: Gregory Haskins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Ingo Molnar , Gregory Haskins , kvm@vger.kernel.org, alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects References: <20090814154125.26116.70709.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090814154308.26116.46980.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090815103243.GA26749@elte.hu> <4A87C3B9.2040206@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A87C3B9.2040206@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCE5F7E838B1ACC645A3192FF" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCE5F7E838B1ACC645A3192FF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/15/2009 01:32 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> This will generally be used for hypervisors to publish any host-side >>> virtual devices up to a guest. The guest will have the opportunity >>> to consume any devices present on the vbus-proxy as if they were >>> platform devices, similar to existing buses like PCI. >>> >>> =20 >> Is there a consensus on this with the KVM folks? (i've added the KVM >> list to the Cc:) >> =20 >=20 > My opinion is that this is a duplication of effort and we'd be better > off if everyone contributed to enhancing virtio, which already has > widely deployed guest drivers and non-Linux guest support. >=20 > It may have merit if it is proven that it is technically superior to > virtio (and I don't mean some benchmark in some point in time; I mean > design wise). So far I haven't seen any indications that it is. >=20 The design is very different, so hopefully I can start to convince you why it might be interesting. Kind Regards, -Greg --------------enigCE5F7E838B1ACC645A3192FF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqJZkgACgkQP5K2CMvXmqF9/QCfYH+FyJBxUb791cYylsF99ofb zi4AnRZCzfj/XOTknrJUq5nZkMDdJ5VD =635N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCE5F7E838B1ACC645A3192FF--