From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Re: More virtio users
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:44:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsyaobbk.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181463220.16428.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Rusty Russell's message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:13:40 +1000")
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 10:33 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> It is worthwhile, when designing virtio, to keep in mind as many
>> possible users as possible. In addition to block and net, I see at
>> least the following:
[...]
> Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory,
> so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory.
> This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be
> the right approach here
Wouldn't that be slow? Xen's PV framebuffer tracks dirty areas with
page granularity.
> Lguest doesn't have a framebuffer, so maybe this is a good thing for me
> to hack on, but I promised myself I'd finish NAPI for the net device,
> and tag for block device first.
That would be nice. It usually takes more than one implementation to
get an abstraction right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-10 7:33 More virtio users Avi Kivity
2007-06-10 8:06 ` [Xen-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-10 8:06 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-10 8:09 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2007-06-10 8:09 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-12 22:07 ` [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-12 23:40 ` Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-12 23:40 ` [kvm-devel] " Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-12 23:54 ` [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-13 5:28 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-13 5:28 ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-14 19:41 ` [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] " Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-14 19:41 ` [kvm-devel] " Caitlin Bestler
[not found] ` <1EF1E44200D82B47BD5BA61171E8CE9D04269D6E-Wx+fQJ8T8QJuheSVJXE+poKqz+Jmtwh+qs7JOtOhHmkAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-14 23:39 ` [Xen-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <200706150139.36770.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-15 16:26 ` Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-15 16:26 ` [kvm-devel] " Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-14 23:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-10 8:13 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-10 8:16 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-10 12:37 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-10 12:37 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 6:41 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-11 7:29 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 7:33 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 0:31 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 0:31 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 6:24 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 7:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 7:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 7:29 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-10 8:16 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-11 8:16 ` [Xen-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2007-06-11 8:19 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-11 8:19 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2007-06-11 19:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-11 19:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-11 19:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-11 23:19 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 0:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-11 23:19 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 3:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-12 3:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-12 4:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-11 13:44 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2007-06-10 8:13 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 3:04 ` ron minnich
2007-06-11 3:04 ` [Xen-devel] " ron minnich
2007-06-12 22:01 ` [kvm-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-14 16:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
[not found] ` <200706130001.21431.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-14 16:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
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