From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gregory Haskins" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] AlacrityVM guest drivers Reply-To: Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:09:33 -0600 Message-ID: <4A7A8FBD0200005A00051B8A@sinclair.provo.novell.com> References: <20090803171030.17268.26962.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090806081955.GA9752@redhat.com> <20090806101702.GA10605@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: , , , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090806101702.GA10605@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org >>> On 8/6/2009 at 6:17 AM, in message <20090806101702.GA10605@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:19:56AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:17:30PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> > (Applies to v2.6.31-rc5, proposed for linux-next after review is complete) >> >> These are guest drivers, right? Merging the guest first means relying on >> kernel interface from an out of tree driver, which well might change >> before it goes in. Would it make more sense to start merging with the >> host side of the project? >> >> > This series implements the guest-side drivers for accelerated IO >> > when running on top of the AlacrityVM hypervisor, the details of >> > which you can find here: >> > >> > http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/AlacrityVM >> >> Since AlacrityVM is kvm based, Cc kvm@vger.kernel.org. >> >> > This series includes the basic plumbing, as well as the driver for >> > accelerated 802.x (ethernet) networking. >> >> The graphs comparing virtio with vbus look interesting. >> However, they do not compare apples to apples, do they? >> These compare userspace virtio with kernel vbus, where for >> apples to apples comparison one would need to compare >> kernel virtio with kernel vbus. Right? > > Or userspace virtio with userspace vbus. Note: That would be pointless. -Greg