Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:09:35 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, ghaskins@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       agraf@suse.de, pmullaney@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com,
       rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus
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Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
> That said, I don't think we're bound today by the fact that we're in 
> userspace.  Rather we're bound by the interfaces we have between the 
> host kernel and userspace to generate IO.  I'd rather fix those 
> interfaces than put more stuff in the kernel.

I'm sorry but I totally disagree with that.  By having our IO
infrastructure in user-space we've basically given up the main
advantage of kvm, which is that the physical drivers operate in
the same environment as the hypervisor.

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