Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

From: Avi Kivity <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:43:17 +0200

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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