From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-73 release Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:43:22 +0300 Message-ID: <20080820164322.GA6984@il.ibm.com> References: <48AC327A.60809@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , Ben-Ami Yassour1 To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mtagate5.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.154]:37550 "EHLO mtagate5.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756381AbYHTQow (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:44:52 -0400 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate5.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7KGhh9O607906 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:43:43 GMT Received: from d12av04.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av04.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.229]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m7KGhg8C3203126 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:43:42 +0200 Received: from d12av04.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av04.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m7KGhgWU018520 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:43:42 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48AC327A.60809@qumranet.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:04:26PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Other noteworthy changes: speedups of both virtio-net and qcow2 with > cache=off. Two important works-in-progress: device assignment (not > usable yet, as dma support is still missing) and the real-mode > emulation framework. Hi Avi, The latest version of the VT-d patches for device assignment was posted by Ben on Aug 7th[1][2]. There were no substantial review comments, so... what are we waiting for? [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg02554.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg02553.html Cheers, Muli -- Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) Co-located with OSDI '08, Dec 2008, San Diego, CA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08