Re: [RFC/GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.2

[Markus Armbruster]

Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's not just the qcow2 implementation or even the block layer. ÂThis pull
>> requests adds a userspace TCP/IP stack to the kernel and yet netdev isn't on
>> the CC and there are no Ack's from anyone from the networking stack. ÂI'm
>> fairly sure if they knew what was happening here they would object.
>
> It's something we consider extremely important because it allows easy
> non-root networking. But you're right, we definitely ought to ping the
> networking folks before the next merge window.

The problem is real.  The solution "duplicate in user space" sucks.  If
you engaging with the kernel networking folks leads to one that doesn't
suck, we should bathe you in free beer.
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