On 01/19/2011 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 01/19/2011 07:15 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
So they interact with KVM (need kvm_state), and they interact with the
emulated PCI bus.  Could you elaborate on the fundamental difference
between the two interactions that makes you choose the (hypothetical)
KVM bus over the PCI bus as device parent?

It's almost arbitrary, but I would say it's the direction that I/Os flow.


In the case of kvm, things are somewhat misleading. I/O still flows through the (virtual) PCI bus, it's just short-circuited to a real device. Similarly when attaching an ioeventfd to a virtio kick register, things still logically from the same way as without ioeventfd; we simply add a fast path for the operation. But it doesn't change the logical view of things.

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