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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MMIO: Make coalesced mmio use a device per zone
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:52:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E26975C.1090402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E26954B.6000606@siemens.com>

On 07/20/2011 11:43 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> >  How do you implement this 3a, if your consumers are outside the main
> >  process?  I guess you could have an additional synchonize API (for
> >  in-kernel consumers) or RPC (for external process consumers), but then
> >  this is no longer a simple API.
>
> I'm not planning to leave the hypervisor process for now, not to speak
> of in-kernel models. Already for many other reasons, a synchronization
> API between a hypothetical decoupled device model and the core will be
> quite complex. The first step is to get it scalable using a single process.

If we design a new kvm API, we must look a little more into the future 
than satisfying immediate needs.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-20  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-19  8:10 [PATCH] MMIO: Make coalesced mmio use a device per zone Sasha Levin
2011-07-19  8:48 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-19  9:53   ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-19  9:59     ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-19 10:17       ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-19 10:32         ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-19 11:22           ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-19 11:45             ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-19 17:14           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-19 17:17             ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-19 17:23               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-19 19:28                 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-19 20:00                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-20  8:24                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-20  8:43                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-20  8:52                     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-07-20  8:55                       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-20  8:58                         ` Avi Kivity

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