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Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Khoa Huynh <khoa@us.ibm.com>, pbadari@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:10:37AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> In general, since we are userspace, we should try to run well on whatever 
> kernel we're on.

It should run with the interfaces given, but hacking around performance
bugs in a gross way is not something qemu should do.