Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

Avi Kivity
2009-12-22T19:38:42Z

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.

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