Pull request

[Tim Gardner]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:18 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
>   
>> The following changes since commit b36405fe8a55e73699e365535f427a67986d5afe:
>>   Tim Gardner (1):
>>         UBUNTU: Disabled CONFIG_CGROUPS.
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/soren/ubuntu-hardy.git master
>>
>>
>> These patches come from Rusty Russel's patch queue for 2.6.25.  Rusty is
>> the maintainer of these things, so this pull will replace the existing
>> virtio stuff in our kernel with what will be in 2.6.25. The current
>> virtio implementation is specific to lguest, and has seen quite limited
>> testing and review.  The new stuff has been through several review
>> iterations on LF's virtualisation mailing list, lkml (I believe) and the
>> kvm development mailing list as well. It will provide a masssive I/O
>> performance improvement for kvm.
>>     
>
> I haven't looked at this enough, so asking to clarify. Are these patches
> needed in the host kernel, or just the guest kernel?
>
>   
All of the patches are either against lguest or a virtio driver. Soren
contends that these patches are better tested then the stuff currently
in 2.6.24. He has built and boot tested. He also says that I/O
performance is much better.

rtg

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