On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:13:29PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/17/2010 12:43 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >>And, again: This is an _existing_ user space ABI. We could only provide > >>an alternative, but we have to maintain what is there at least for some > >>longer grace period. > >> > >But it was always broken for SVM and was broken for VMX for a year and > >nobody noticed, so may be instead of reintroducing old interface we should > >do it right this time? > > We need to fix the existing interface first, and then think long and > hard if we want yet another interface, since we're likely to screw > it up as well. > > The more interfaces we introduce, the harder maintenance becomes. > We are in a sad state if we cannot improve interface. The current one outsource part of CPU functionality into userspace. This should be a big no-no. -- Gleb. -- 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
