Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] introduce virtio net dataplane

[mdroth]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:05:44PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 21/02/2013 17:33, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> > Interesting patch series.  I want to share my thoughts on the status of
> > dataplane and what I'm currently working on.  There will probably be
> > some overlap that we can coordinate.
> > 
> > First, I want to eventually delete hw/dataplane/ :).  That is because
> > dataplane duplicates an event loop, thread-friendly guest RAM access,
> > and virtio.  QEMU already has all this functionality except it's not
> > thread-friendly.
> > 
> > Because hw/dataplane/ will eventually go away we should avoid adding new
> > code where possible.
> 
> 100% agree.  In particular hw/dataplane/event-poll.c should be the first
> to go away, but AioContext provides the functionality that Ping Fan
> needs.  But hw/dataplane/vring.c will probably be here for a longer

Has there been any discussion around introducing something similar to
AioContexts for fd handlers? This would avoid the dataplane-specific hooks
needed for NetClients in this series.