Re: QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-10T08:07:29Z

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:38:18PM +0300, Avi Kivity (avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org) wrote:
> >But I don't get this "we can enhance the kernel but not userspace" vibe
> >8(
> >
>
> I've been waiting for network aio since ~2003. If it arrives in the
> next few days, I'm all for it; much more than kvm can use it
> profitably. But I'm not going to write that interface myself.

Hmm, you missed at least two implementations of network aio in the
previous year, and now with syslets we can have third one.

But it looks from this discussion, that it will not prevent from
changing in-kernel driver - place a hook into skb allocation path and
allocate data from opposing memory - get pages from another side and put
them into fragments, then copy headers into skb->data.

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Evgeniy Polyakov