Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751483AbZL0JQt (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:16:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751162AbZL0JQs (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:16:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44344 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005AbZL0JQq (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:16:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3725CE.8040004@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:15:58 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Haskins CC: Andi Kleen , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , Anthony Liguori , Ingo Molnar , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 References: <4B1D4F29.8020309@gmail.com> <87637zdy9g.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <4B30E654.40702@codemonkey.ws> <200912221701.56840.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4B30F214.80206@codemonkey.ws> <20091223065129.GA19600@elte.hu> <20091223101340.GC20539@basil.fritz.box> <4B31EF65.6070000@redhat.com> <4B325E33.8060407@gmail.com> <4B327B90.2050403@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 19 On 12/23/2009 11:21 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote: > That said, you are still incorrect. With what I proposed, the model > will run as an in-kernel vbus device, and no longer run in userspace. > It would therefore improve virtio-net as I stated, much in the same > way vhost-net or venet-tap do today. > That can't work. virtio-net has its own ABI on top of virtio, for example it prepends a header for TSO information. Maybe if you disable all features it becomes compatible with venet, but that cripples it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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/