Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-05-13T17:06:08Z

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:49:14AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Dor Laor wrote:
> > Furthermore,
> >
> >> the plan is to completely rearchitect the netback/netfront
> >> protocol for the next Xen release (this effort is referred to
> >> netchannel2).
> >>
> >
> > But isn't Jeremy Fitzhardinge is pushing big patch queue into the
> > kernel?
> >
>
> Yes, but it's not in the kernel yet and there's no guarantee it'll
> get there in time for KVM's consumption.

On the other hand, there's strong interest in having unified virtual
drivers. Given that the Xen drivers are out there, have been submitted
and have been reasonably optimized, there will be some resistance to
putting in "yet another" set of PV drivers. Also, the contentious
merge point as I understand it is xenbus needing review, rather than
the drivers themselves which are in pretty good shape.

Cheers,
Muli