From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756151AbZHFPrN (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:47:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755922AbZHFPrN (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:47:13 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48025 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755484AbZHFPrM (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:47:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:45:45 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Gregory Haskins , Avi Kivity , alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] AlacrityVM guest drivers Reply-To: Message-ID: <20090806154543.GA11944@redhat.com> References: <20090803171030.17268.26962.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <4A7AE150.7040009@redhat.com> <4A7AAB1A0200005A00051BED@sinclair.provo.novell.com> <200908061740.04276.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908061740.04276.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:40:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 3. The ioq method seems to be the real core of your work that makes > venet perform better than virtio-net with its virtqueues. I don't see > any reason to doubt that your claim is correct. My conclusion from > this would be to add support for ioq to virtio devices, alongside > virtqueues, but to leave out the extra bus_type and probing method. > > Arnd <>< The fact that it's in kernel also likely contributes. -- MST