Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934422AbZDBJFv (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:05:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755772AbZDBJFf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:05:35 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:58399 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752858AbZDBJFe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:05:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:05:18 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Avi Kivity Cc: Anthony Liguori , 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 Message-ID: <20090402090518.GA30039@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20090402030935.GA27836@gondor.apana.org.au> <49D45F59.9030100@redhat.com> <20090402085411.GA29967@gondor.apana.org.au> <49D47F64.3020709@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49D47F64.3020709@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 913 Lines: 22 On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:03:32PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Like Anthony said, the problem is with the kernel->user interfaces. We > won't have a good user space virtio implementation until that is fixed. If it's just the interface that's bad, then it should be possible to do a proof-of-concept patch to show that this is the case. Even if we have to redesign the interface, at least you can then say that you guys were right all along :) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/