Re: [PATCH 4/5] kvm-lite: "The Unbearable Liteness"

[Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 02:16 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:47 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 01:42 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > This patch is not for serious application, but makes interesting
> > > reading.  Requires Anthony's new hypercall patches.
> > > 
> > > Comments:
> > > 
> > > 1) asm-offsets are required for lite's switcher/trampoline (lite_switcher.S)
> > >    and for guest's assembler code.
> > > 2) Includes proposed "platform_type" extension for boot protocol.  May not be
> > >    necessary.
> > > 3) kvm/ now contains guest code, so needs to be obj-y.
> > 
> > I think lite_guest.c ought to end up in arch/i386/kernel/kvm.c with the
> > rest of the PV guest code.
> 
> Agreed, but that didn't exist when this patch was made.
> 
> ISTR there was some feedback for your patches; were you going to repost?

Avi had suggested that IO delay be set based on query to the kernel but
ATM since no devices are in the kernel, this didn't seem like a good
idea.

Was there something else that I'm missing?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Rusty.
> 


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