Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

Gregory Haskins
2009-12-22T19:41:22Z

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On 12/22/09 2:38 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 09:32 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> xinterface, as it turns out, is a great KVM interface for me and easy to
>> extend, all without conflicting with the changes in upstream. The old
>> way was via the kvm ioctl interface, but that sucked as the ABI was
>> always moving. Where is the problem? ioeventfd still works fine as
>> it is.
>>
>
> It means that kvm locking suddenly affects more of the kernel.
>

Thats ok. This would only be w.r.t. devices that are bound to the KVM
instance anyway, so they better know what they are doing (and they do).

-Greg

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