Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

[Avi Kivity]

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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