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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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