Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Dec 22 2009 - 14:44:43 EST


On 12/22/2009 09:41 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:

It means that kvm locking suddenly affects more of the kernel.

Thats ok. This would only be w.r.t. devices that are bound to the KVM
instance anyway, so they better know what they are doing (and they do).


It's okay to the author of that device. It's not okay to the kvm developers who are still evolving the locking and have to handle all devices that use xinterface.

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