Re: [PATCH 5/5] ioeventfd: Introduce KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_SOCKET

Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13T08:02:43Z

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> - the writes are such high frequency that we gain something from the
> queueing is happens when we thread work.  That's where the gain for serial
> console can come from - though it would be better to just use virtio-serial
> instead.

We'd like to keep 8250 emulation because it's the most robust method
for getting data out of the kernel when there's problems. It's also
compatible with earlyprintk and such.

Pekka