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

[Chris Wright]

* Anthony Liguori (anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:19:49AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>>> Performance.  We are trying to create a high performance IO infrastructure.
>>
>> Ok. So the goal is to bypass user space qemu completely for better
>> performance. Can you please put this into the initial patch
>> description?
>
> FWIW, there's nothing that prevents in-kernel back ends with virtio so  
> vbus certainly isn't required for in-kernel backends.

Indeed.

> That said, I don't think we're bound today by the fact that we're in  
> userspace.  Rather we're bound by the interfaces we have between the  
> host kernel and userspace to generate IO.  I'd rather fix those  
> interfaces than put more stuff in the kernel.

And more stuff in the kernel can come at the potential cost of weakening
protection/isolation.
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