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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 2/7] qemu: separate thread for io
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Before merging into QEMU, we should at least make sure that it's not 
>> going to create a nightmare for Avi :-)
>
> While it's likely going to be bad, we shouldn't make too much effort 
> in making the merge easy.  We should aim to get the cleanest 
> implementation in qemu, and then rework kvm-userspace to match that.  
> That's the whole point of the merge, no?

The effort to make merging easy should be in kvm-userspace, not in 
qemu.  Thinking through how it would integrate with kvm-userspace is a 
good exercise in determining whether all of the requirements are being 
met for KVM too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Of course, if it happens to be easy I won't complain too much.
>