From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Arjan Koers <0h61vkll2ly8@xutrox.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.13.0-rc1
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:59:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8CF8F1.4080708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8CF258.906@codemonkey.ws>
On 09/12/2010 05:31 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 09/12/2010 01:11 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 09/10/2010 10:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> I agree, is there any reason not to enable compiling less into the
>>>> binary?
>>>> There are folks interested in eliminating as much as possible to
>>>> reduce
>>>> the attack surface and auditing requirements, for example.
>>>
>>> It's not a bad idea, it's just that what --disable-cpu-emulation
>>> does is evil. Being that I wrote the implementation, I'm quite
>>> confident in declare it as such :-)
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I thought you were against the idea in itself for some reason.
>>
>> I'll patch it for 0.13, but any ideas on how it should be rework for
>> master?
>
> Glauber's old Accel interface was close to the right approach. We
> need to abstract the exec.c interfaces to use a function pointer table
> and have a TCG and KVM implementation. The function pointer tables
> can then be registered by a module_init() and we can simply not
> include the kvm or TCG files are build time to disable the functionality.
Yes, I remember it now.
Glauber, can you bring those patches back from the land of the dead?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-12 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 16:29 [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.13.0-rc1 Marcelo Tosatti
2010-09-08 20:05 ` Arjan Koers
2010-09-08 20:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 6:17 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 13:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 11:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 19:31 ` Chris Wright
2010-09-10 19:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 19:55 ` Chris Wright
2010-09-12 6:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 15:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-12 15:59 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-09-13 13:10 ` Glauber Costa
2010-09-13 11:32 ` Jan Kiszka
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