From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jrznq-0002aC-Mp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 14:16:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jrzno-0002XB-HX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 14:16:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56490 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jrzno-0002Wv-C6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 14:16:12 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jrznn-0002fv-Ua for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 14:16:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:16:07 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver Message-ID: <20080502181607.GA2827@shareable.org> References: <12097505533742-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <1209750562292-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1209750562292-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mtosatti@redhat.com, Glauber Costa Glauber Costa wrote: > This patch introduces QEMUAccel, a placeholder for function pointers > that aims at helping qemu to abstract accelerators such as kqemu and > kvm (actually, the 'accelerator' name was proposed by avi kivity, since > he loves referring to kvm that way). Just a little thought... Maybe 'VCPU' would be a clearer name? QEMU provides its own VCPU, and KQEMU+QEMU also provide one toegether. While KVM provides essentially one or more whole VCPUs by itself and uses QEMU's drivers only doesn't it? -- Jamie