From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] Add -kvm option
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:56:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACDFDB1.2020505@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACDF9FD.8060704@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> That's a bug in the userspace pit :)
>
> I'm worried about things like 'info pit' needing dual implementations.
You mean info qdm?
It'll Just Work.
>>> We'll have the same problem with vhost-net, only there the
>>> duplication will be much greater if we split the implementation.
>>
>> I'd rather not treat vhost-net like a device model and instead treat
>> it like a -net backend. If we can bounce requests through userspace
>> (and we can), we should be able to use it for any device model. In
>> the case of virtio-net, we should be able to short-circuit things
>> such that we don't have to go through userspace. It's admittedly
>> very hairy without a point-to-point net abstraction.
>>
>
> Interesting idea. I think it'll be hairy even with a point-to-point
> net abstraction, but it's worth trying.
Could be interesting trying to tie the e1000 to vhost-net performance
wise...
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 22:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add in-kernel irqchip Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/9] add base-addr field to io apic state Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/9] Save missing fields in VMState Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/9] provide in-kernel ioapic Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/9] provide in-kernel apic Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/9] provide apic_set_irq_delivered Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 6/9] provide in-kernel i8259 chip Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 7/9] initialize " Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] Initialize in-kernel irqchip Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 9/9] Add -kvm option Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 23:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 23:14 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 23:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-12 11:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-12 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-12 15:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-12 16:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-13 8:05 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-13 15:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-13 19:26 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-10-13 20:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-14 8:08 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-13 15:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-13 22:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-08 14:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 14:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 14:30 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 14:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 14:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 14:56 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-10-08 15:05 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-12 11:15 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-08 14:34 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-08 12:02 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] initialize i8259 chip Jan Kiszka
2009-10-08 13:55 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] provide in-kernel apic Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 14:09 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 14:22 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-09 10:06 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-09 14:30 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-09 16:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-09 18:06 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-09 19:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-11 9:10 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 13:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 14:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 14:31 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 14:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 14:46 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-08 14:44 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-08 11:46 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] provide in-kernel ioapic Jan Kiszka
2009-10-08 13:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 13:54 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 15:53 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-08 16:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-08 16:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 16:17 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 16:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-08 16:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 16:34 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-08 16:42 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-08 17:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-09 10:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-09 12:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-09 14:32 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-09 16:49 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <m31vlctk9q.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-10-09 21:34 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-12 13:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-12 14:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-12 14:49 ` Anthony Liguori
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