>>> On 8/19/2009 at 3:13 AM, in message <4A8BA635.9010902@xxxxxxxxxx>, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. ?? *) 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
