Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752712Ab1DHI1U (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2011 04:27:20 -0400 Received: from filtteri1.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.184]:55472 "EHLO filtteri1.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751234Ab1DHI1S (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2011 04:27:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool From: Pekka Enberg To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Anthony Liguori , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4D9EBBC3.2040803@siemens.com> References: <1301592656.586.15.camel@jaguar> <4D982E89.8070502@redhat.com> <4D9847BC.9060906@redhat.com> <4D98716D.9040307@codemonkey.ws> <4D9873CD.3080207@redhat.com> <20110406093333.GB6465@elte.hu> <4D9E6F6E.9050709@codemonkey.ws> <4D9EBBC3.2040803@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:27:16 +0300 Message-ID: <1302251236.27918.31.camel@jaguar> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 21 Hi Jan, On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:39 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > I agree that it's easy to change 2kSomething LOC for this. But if you > now wait too long designing in essential features like SMP, a scalable > execution model, and - very important - portability (*), it can get > fairly painful to fix such architectural deficits later on. How long did > it take for Linux to overcome the BKL? QEMU is in the same unfortunate > position. Yup, and we're taking your feedback seriously (and are thankful for it!). We're hoping to look at SMP in the near future - help is appreciated! Pekka -- 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/