From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Haskins Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:56:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4B311667.5080405@gmail.com> References: <4B1D4F29.8020309@gmail.com> <20091218215107.GA14946@elte.hu> <4B2F9582.5000002@gmail.com> <20091222075742.GB26467@elte.hu> <4B3103B4.4070708@gmail.com> <4B3115C1.4070303@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6C7BEE90DCC1CF66CE90B145" Cc: Ingo Molnar , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com ([209.85.211.182]:60194 "EHLO mail-yw0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754659AbZLVS4n (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:56:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B3115C1.4070303@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6C7BEE90DCC1CF66CE90B145 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/22/09 1:53 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/22/2009 07:36 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> >>> Gregory, it would be nice if you worked _much_ harder with the KVM fo= lks >>> before giving up. >>> =20 >> I think the 5+ months that I politely tried to convince the KVM folks >> that this was a good idea was pretty generous of my employer. The KVM= >> maintainers have ultimately made it clear they are not interested in >> directly supporting this concept (which is their prerogative), but are= >> perhaps willing to support the peripheral logic needed to allow it to >> easily interface with KVM. I can accept that, and thus AlacrityVM was= >> born. >> =20 >=20 > Review pointed out locking issues with xinterface which I have not seen= > addressed. I asked why the irqfd/ioeventfd mechanisms are insufficient= , > and you did not reply. >=20 Yes, I understand. I've been too busy to rework the code for an upstream push. I will certainly address those questions when I make the next attempt, but they weren't relevant to the guest side. --------------enig6C7BEE90DCC1CF66CE90B145 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksxFmcACgkQP5K2CMvXmqG/FQCbBrkWYeSsy/McAXgIeunEVht6 wdUAn2yXf163nKyYkPWFt3orqnFbSwBr =+fMG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6C7BEE90DCC1CF66CE90B145--