Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753950Ab1DUDhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:37:53 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:40906 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753740Ab1DUDhw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:37:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:37:35 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, konrad@kernel.org, Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen block backend. 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1303333543-5915-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 502 Lines: 10 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. -- 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/