From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen block backend. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:37:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20110421033735.GA11501@infradead.org> References: <1303333543-5915-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1303333543-5915-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, konrad@kernel.org, Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This should sit in userspace. And last time was discussed the issue Stefano said the qemu Xen disk backend is just as fast as this kernel code. And that's with an not even very optimized codebase yet. So clear NAK for adding all this mess to the kernel.