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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Balloon driver?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:17:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4666DE28.1060308@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4666DB13.7080504-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Carsten Otte wrote:
> The best approach into this direction I have seen so far is not our 
> own vdev thing but Rusty's virtio infrastructure. That's what I think 
> I would start with.
>
>   

I agree.  We need a Lego set containing the following bricks:

- bus interfaces: pci bus, hypercall-based bus, xenbus
- functionality: net driver, block driver
- virtio data path: xen rings + grant tables + event channels, kvm rings
+ kmap_atomic + interrupts

So you can write a 4-line driver that glues the pci bus interface to the
net functionality driver to kvm virtio backend, and take the rest of the
day off.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 10:55 Balloon driver? Jun Koi
     [not found] ` <fdaac4d50706050355t3e34e9caj5fe9f3f38613bcbf-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-05 11:49   ` Dor Laor
     [not found]     ` <64F9B87B6B770947A9F8391472E032160C1A61E8-yEcIvxbTEBqsx+V+t5oei8rau4O3wl8o3fe8/T/H7NteoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06  2:20       ` Jun Koi
     [not found]         ` <fdaac4d50706051920w17cfe72am13d9d5213b344c9f-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 10:24           ` Dor Laor
     [not found]             ` <64F9B87B6B770947A9F8391472E032160C26F84A-yEcIvxbTEBqsx+V+t5oei8rau4O3wl8o3fe8/T/H7NteoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 10:53               ` Jun Koi
     [not found]                 ` <fdaac4d50706060353o12fe931du8250b8bd15b256d8-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 12:40                   ` Carsten Otte
     [not found]                     ` <4666AB2E.8030502-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 14:03                       ` Dor Laor
     [not found]                         ` <64F9B87B6B770947A9F8391472E032160C26F90E-yEcIvxbTEBqsx+V+t5oei8rau4O3wl8o3fe8/T/H7NteoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 16:04                           ` Carsten Otte
     [not found]                             ` <4666DB13.7080504-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 16:17                               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]                                 ` <4666DE28.1060308-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 16:41                                   ` Jun Koi
     [not found]                                     ` <fdaac4d50706060941u2ebd0180o5b6075ceb370db1b-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 16:52                                       ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-06 22:06                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-07  1:30                                   ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-06 16:38                               ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]                                 ` <200706061838.29017.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 16:46                                   ` Carsten Otte
     [not found]                                     ` <4666E4D4.7090901-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-06 17:24                                       ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-08 21:41                                   ` Dor Laor

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