Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:40:37 -0600 | From | "Gregory Haskins" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects |
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>>> On 8/19/2009 at 3:13 AM, in message <4A8BA635.9010902@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/19/2009 09:40 AM, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> >> >>>> So if I whip up a virtio-net backend for vbus with a PCI compliant >>>> connector, you are happy? >>>> >>>> >>> This doesn't improve virtio-net in any way. >>> >> Any why not? (Did you notice I said "PCI compliant", i.e. over virtio-pci) >> > > Because virtio-net will have gained nothing that it didn't have before.
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*) ABI is virtio-pci compatible, as you like *) fast-path is in-kernel, as we all like *) model is in vbus so it would work in all environments that vbus supports.
> > > > >>> virtio already supports this model; see lguest and s390. Transporting >>> virtio over vbus and vbus over something else doesn't gain anything over >>> directly transporting virtio over that something else. >>> >> This is not what I am advocating. >> >> > > What are you advocating? As far as I can tell your virtio-vbus > connector plus the vbus-kvm connector is just that.
I wouldn't classify it anything like that, no. Its just virtio over vbus.
-Greg
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