From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:41:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090817174142.GA11140@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8965E0.8050608@gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Case in point: Take an upstream kernel and you can modprobe the
> vbus-pcibridge in and virtio devices will work over that transport
> unmodified.
>
> See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/6/244 for details.
The modprobe you are talking about would need
to be done in guest kernel, correct?
> OTOH, Michael's patch is purely targeted at improving virtio-net on kvm,
> and its likewise constrained by various limitations of that decision
> (such as its reliance of the PCI model, and the kvm memory scheme).
vhost is actually not related to PCI in any way. It simply leaves all
setup for userspace to do. And the memory scheme was intentionally
separated from kvm so that it can easily support e.g. lguest.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-17 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 15:42 [PATCH v3 0/6] AlacrityVM guest drivers Gregory Haskins
2009-08-14 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] shm-signal: shared-memory signals Gregory Haskins
2009-08-14 15:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ioq: Add basic definitions for a shared-memory, lockless queue Gregory Haskins
2009-08-14 15:43 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects Gregory Haskins
2009-08-15 10:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-15 19:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-16 7:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-17 13:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-17 14:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-17 14:14 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-17 14:58 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-17 15:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-17 17:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-08-17 20:17 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 8:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 15:19 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 16:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 15:53 ` [Alacrityvm-devel] " Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-18 16:51 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 17:27 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-18 17:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 18:27 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-18 18:52 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 20:59 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-18 21:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 22:06 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 0:44 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-19 5:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 0:38 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-19 5:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 15:28 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-19 15:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 16:29 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-19 16:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 21:05 ` Hollis Blanchard
2009-08-20 9:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2009-08-20 10:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 20:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-18 20:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 20:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 23:24 ` Ira W. Snyder
2009-08-18 1:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-18 7:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 8:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 13:16 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 13:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 15:51 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 16:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-19 4:27 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 5:22 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 13:27 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 14:35 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 16:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 16:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-19 5:36 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 5:48 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 6:40 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 7:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 11:40 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 11:49 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 11:52 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 14:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-20 12:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-16 8:30 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-17 14:16 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-17 14:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-17 15:09 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-17 15:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-17 19:35 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-17 15:18 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-17 13:02 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-17 14:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-17 15:05 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-17 15:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-17 19:33 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 8:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 14:46 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 16:27 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 6:28 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 7:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 18:23 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2009-08-19 18:39 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 19:19 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2009-08-19 19:34 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2009-08-19 20:12 ` configfs/sysfs Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 20:48 ` configfs/sysfs Ingo Molnar
2009-08-19 20:53 ` configfs/sysfs Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 21:19 ` configfs/sysfs Nicholas A. Bellinger
2009-08-19 22:15 ` configfs/sysfs Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 22:16 ` configfs/sysfs Joel Becker
2009-08-19 23:48 ` [Alacrityvm-devel] configfs/sysfs Alex Tsariounov
2009-08-19 23:54 ` configfs/sysfs Nicholas A. Bellinger
2009-08-20 6:09 ` configfs/sysfs Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <4A8CE891.2010502@redhat.com>
2009-08-20 22:48 ` configfs/sysfs Joel Becker
2009-08-21 4:14 ` configfs/sysfs Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects Gregory Haskins
2009-08-19 20:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 20:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-20 17:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2009-08-20 20:58 ` Caitlin Bestler
2009-08-18 18:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-18 19:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-19 5:36 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 9:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 10:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 10:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 10:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 10:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 10:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 11:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 11:15 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 11:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-18 11:54 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-18 15:39 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-18 16:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-17 15:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-14 15:43 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] vbus-proxy: add a pci-to-vbus bridge Gregory Haskins
2009-08-14 15:43 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] ioq: add driver-side vbus helpers Gregory Haskins
2009-08-14 15:43 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] net: Add vbus_enet driver Gregory Haskins
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