Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:01:59 +0200 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 |
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:28:08AM -0800, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:34:44PM -0500, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > On 12/23/09 1:15 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:36, Gregory Haskins > > > <gregory.haskins@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 12/22/09 2:57 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >>> * Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>> Actually, these patches have nothing to do with the KVM folks. [...] > > >>> > > >>> That claim is curious to me - the AlacrityVM host > > >> > > >> It's quite simple, really. These drivers support accessing vbus, and > > >> vbus is hypervisor agnostic. In fact, vbus isn't necessarily even > > >> hypervisor related. It may be used anywhere where a Linux kernel is the > > >> "io backend", which includes hypervisors like AlacrityVM, but also > > >> userspace apps, and interconnected physical systems as well.
So focus on interconnecting physical systems I think would be one way for vbus to stop conflicting with KVM. If drivers for such systems appear I expect that relevant (hypervisor-agnostic) vbus bits would be very uncontroversial.
This would not be the first technology to make the jump from attempting to be a PCI replacement to being an interconnect btw, I think infiniband did this as well.
-- MST
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