Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

2007-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > prototyping new kernel APIs to implement user-space network drivers, > > on a crufty codebase is not something that should be done lightly. > > I think you overestimate my radicalism. I was considering readv() and > writev() on the tap device. o

Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

2007-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] Did Linux have extremely high quality code in 1994? > > yes! It was crutial to strive for extremely high quality code all the > time. That was the only way to grow Linux's codebase, which was >

Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

2007-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Did Linux have extremely high quality code in 1994? yes! It was crutial to strive for extremely high quality code all the time. That was the only way to grow Linux's codebase, which was ~300,000 lines of code in 1994, to the current 7.2+ mil