[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] [RFC] try to reduce kvm impact in core qemu code.

[Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>> Hi. This is a proposal for reducing the impact of kvm functions in 
>> core qemu
>> code. This is by all means not ready, but I felt like posting it, so a 
>> discussion
>> on it could follow.
>>
>> The idea in this patch is to replace the specific kvm details from 
>> core qemu files
>> like vl.c, with driver_yyy() functions. When kvm is not running, those 
>> functions would
>> just return (most of time), absolutely reducing the impact of kvm code.
>>
>> As I wanted to test it, in this patch I changed the kvm functions to 
>> be called driver_yyy(),
>> but that's not my final goal. I intend to use a function pointer 
>> schema, similar to what the linux
>> kernel already do for a lot of its subsystem, to isolate the changes.
>>
>> Comments deeply welcome.
>>   
> 
> While I would be very annoyed if someone referred to kvm as a qemu 
> accelerator, I think accelerator_yyy() is more descriptive than 
> driver_yyy().
How about booster? ;-)

> I did not see any references to kqemu, but I imagine you mean this to 
> abstract kqemu support as well.

Yeah, even the kvm part is not complete. As I said, just wanted to get 
it going.
> 
> Other than that, looks really good.
> 
thanks