From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:15:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4B3725CE.8040004@redhat.com> References: <4B1D4F29.8020309@gmail.com> <87637zdy9g.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <4B30E654.40702@codemonkey.ws> <200912221701.56840.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4B30F214.80206@codemonkey.ws> <20091223065129.GA19600@elte.hu> <20091223101340.GC20539@basil.fritz.box> <4B31EF65.6070000@redhat.com> <4B325E33.8060407@gmail.com> <4B327B90.2050403@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , Anthony Liguori , Ingo Molnar , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 12/23/2009 11:21 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote: > That said, you are still incorrect. With what I proposed, the model > will run as an in-kernel vbus device, and no longer run in userspace. > It would therefore improve virtio-net as I stated, much in the same > way vhost-net or venet-tap do today. > That can't work. virtio-net has its own ABI on top of virtio, for example it prepends a header for TSO information. Maybe if you disable all features it becomes compatible with venet, but that cripples it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function