On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/14/2011 10:26 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> >> On 7/13/11 4:32 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> >>> Just how fast do you type? >>> >>> It's not enough to make something faster, it has to be slow to being >>> with. The interface is good, but use it where it helps. >> >> I don't know why you bring up serial console input here. Sasha's >> original KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_PIPE patch clearly stated: >> >> A simple example for practical use is the serial port. we are not >> interested in an exit every time a char is written to the port, but >> we do need to know what was written so we could handle it on the >> guest. >> >> So it's talking about the serial console output, not input. >> > > I'm talking about the real world. Is any of this something that needs > optimization? Yes. See Sasha's other email. We should have mentioned that in the changelog. > 1024 vcpus logging in via the serial console at 10Gbps. Get real. [...] Huh, why are you bringing something like that up? Pekka -- 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