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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33
    On 12/22/09 1:53 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
    > On 12/22/2009 07:36 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
    >>
    >>> Gregory, it would be nice if you worked _much_ harder with the KVM folks
    >>> before giving up.
    >>>
    >> I think the 5+ months that I politely tried to convince the KVM folks
    >> that this was a good idea was pretty generous of my employer. The KVM
    >> maintainers have ultimately made it clear they are not interested in
    >> directly supporting this concept (which is their prerogative), but are
    >> perhaps willing to support the peripheral logic needed to allow it to
    >> easily interface with KVM. I can accept that, and thus AlacrityVM was
    >> born.
    >>
    >
    > Review pointed out locking issues with xinterface which I have not seen
    > addressed. I asked why the irqfd/ioeventfd mechanisms are insufficient,
    > and you did not reply.
    >

    Yes, I understand. I've been too busy to rework the code for an
    upstream push. I will certainly address those questions when I make the
    next attempt, but they weren't relevant to the guest side.

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