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

Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13T13:00:08Z

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What do you hope to gain from the optimization? 100ms less boot time?

Hmm? I use serial console for logging into the guest and actually
using it all the time.

Pekka