From: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
mtosatti@redhat.com, Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:49:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481B705A.8010203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502181607.GA2827@shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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
VCPU is rather confusing with the vcpus themselves. KVM, for instance,
has its own structures called "vcpu".
If it is preferred, however, we can name the structure VCPUOperations,
and change the function names that involves accel_yyy to vcpu_op_yyy()
What do you think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 17:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Presenting accelerators for better abstraction Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] [PATCH] exec interrupt made abstract by accel_yyy() Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] [PATCH] init env made accel driver Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [PATCH] wrap cache flushing functions into accel drivers Glauber Costa
2008-05-02 18:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [PATCH] introduce QEMUAccel and fill it with interrupt specific driver Jamie Lokier
2008-05-02 19:49 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2008-05-02 20:16 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-02 20:17 ` Glauber Costa
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