Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:03:32 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus |
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Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:46:49AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> I don't understand this. If we had good interfaces, all that userspace >> would do is translate guest physical addresses to host physical >> addresses, and translate the guest->host protocol to host API calls. I >> don't see anything there that benefits from being in the kernel. >> >> Can you elaborate? >> > > I think Greg has expressed it clearly enough. > > At the end of the day, the numbers speak for themselves. So if > and when there's a user-space version that achieves the same or > better results, then I will change my mind :) >
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.
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