On 2011-07-20 10:52, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 07/20/2011 11:43 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> >>> How do you implement this 3a, if your consumers are outside the main >>> process? I guess you could have an additional synchonize API (for >>> in-kernel consumers) or RPC (for external process consumers), but then >>> this is no longer a simple API. >> >> I'm not planning to leave the hypervisor process for now, not to speak >> of in-kernel models. Already for many other reasons, a synchronization >> API between a hypothetical decoupled device model and the core will be >> quite complex. The first step is to get it scalable using a single process. > > If we design a new kvm API, we must look a little more into the future > than satisfying immediate needs. That's true, but synchronization requirements are widely unrelated to this API and will have to by satisfied generically anyway. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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
