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

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 04:54:42 EST


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 :)

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