On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:09:29AM -0400, Jagannathan Raman wrote: > +Accelerating device emulation > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > + > +The messages that are required to be sent between QEMU and the emulation > +process can add considerable latency to IO operations. The optimizations > +described below attempt to ameliorate this effect by allowing the > +emulation process to communicate directly with the kernel KVM driver. > +The KVM file descriptors created wold be passed to the emulation process s/wold/would/ I skipped the acceleration section for now because they require kvm.ko changes. I'll focus the remainder of the review on the patches as they are now.