From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] coalesce mmio regions with an explicit call Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:19:14 -0300 Message-ID: <20080925111914.GA7221@poweredge.glommer> References: <1221840506-22996-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1221840506-22996-9-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <48D54370.7090709@redhat.com> <20080922135645.GF3618@poweredge.glommer> <48D89AEC.5090102@redhat.com> <20080923162233.GD3583@poweredge.glommer> <48DA2022.8020807@redhat.com> <20080924215914.GA5049@poweredge.glommer> <48DB3905.9040707@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52716 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753148AbYIYLTq (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:19:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48DB3905.9040707@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:08:53AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: > > > > Any ideas about what's up for the other hypervisors that may (we hope) be integrated > > in the future? Xen? > > > > Xen should benefit even more (much more). IIRC Windows wouldn't boot > since it was spending all its time context switching when the splash > screen with its KITT bar was displayed, so they hacked something for > vga, but nothing generic. That's the point. It's not just a word play between qemu and kvm, because if we introduce generic hooks that kvm happens to fill, but qemu not, other hypervirors may (we hope) fill it in the future.