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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] AlacrityVM guest drivers Reply-To:
    On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:19:56AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
    > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:17:30PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
    > > (Applies to v2.6.31-rc5, proposed for linux-next after review is complete)
    >
    > These are guest drivers, right? Merging the guest first means relying on
    > kernel interface from an out of tree driver, which well might change
    > before it goes in. Would it make more sense to start merging with the
    > host side of the project?
    >
    > > This series implements the guest-side drivers for accelerated IO
    > > when running on top of the AlacrityVM hypervisor, the details of
    > > which you can find here:
    > >
    > > http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/AlacrityVM
    >
    > Since AlacrityVM is kvm based, Cc kvm@vger.kernel.org.
    >
    > > This series includes the basic plumbing, as well as the driver for
    > > accelerated 802.x (ethernet) networking.
    >
    > The graphs comparing virtio with vbus look interesting.
    > However, they do not compare apples to apples, do they?
    > These compare userspace virtio with kernel vbus, where for
    > apples to apples comparison one would need to compare
    > kernel virtio with kernel vbus. Right?

    Or userspace virtio with userspace vbus.

    > > Regards,
    > > -Greg
    > >
    > > ---
    > >
    > > Gregory Haskins (7):
    > > venet: add scatter-gather/GSO support
    > > net: Add vbus_enet driver
    > > ioq: add driver-side vbus helpers
    > > vbus-proxy: add a pci-to-vbus bridge
    > > vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects
    > > ioq: Add basic definitions for a shared-memory, lockless queue
    > > shm-signal: shared-memory signals
    > >
    > >
    > > arch/x86/Kconfig | 2
    > > drivers/Makefile | 1
    > > drivers/net/Kconfig | 14 +
    > > drivers/net/Makefile | 1
    > > drivers/net/vbus-enet.c | 899 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    > > drivers/vbus/Kconfig | 24 +
    > > drivers/vbus/Makefile | 6
    > > drivers/vbus/bus-proxy.c | 216 ++++++++++
    > > drivers/vbus/pci-bridge.c | 824 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    > > include/linux/Kbuild | 4
    > > include/linux/ioq.h | 415 ++++++++++++++++++++
    > > include/linux/shm_signal.h | 189 +++++++++
    > > include/linux/vbus_driver.h | 80 ++++
    > > include/linux/vbus_pci.h | 127 ++++++
    > > include/linux/venet.h | 84 ++++
    > > lib/Kconfig | 21 +
    > > lib/Makefile | 2
    > > lib/ioq.c | 294 ++++++++++++++
    > > lib/shm_signal.c | 192 +++++++++
    > > 19 files changed, 3395 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    > > create mode 100644 drivers/net/vbus-enet.c
    > > create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/Kconfig
    > > create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/Makefile
    > > create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/bus-proxy.c
    > > create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/pci-bridge.c
    > > create mode 100644 include/linux/ioq.h
    > > create mode 100644 include/linux/shm_signal.h
    > > create mode 100644 include/linux/vbus_driver.h
    > > create mode 100644 include/linux/vbus_pci.h
    > > create mode 100644 include/linux/venet.h
    > > create mode 100644 lib/ioq.c
    > > create mode 100644 lib/shm_signal.c
    > >
    > > --
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