Re: [announce] KVM/NET, paravirtual network device

[Ingo Molnar <mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>]

* Rusty Russell <rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 01:10 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > here's a quick update wrt. the KVM paravirtualization work: i'm 
> > currently working on KVM/NET, which is a Linux<->Linux virtual network 
> > device driver between the KVM host and the KVM guest. It uses the new 
> > KVM-paravirtualization infrastructure that i've sent to this list 
> > yesterday.
> > 
> > while the code is still a prototype, it's working already and here are 
> > some early TCP bandwidth (bw_tcp from guest to host) performance results 
> > which i'm sure you'll enjoy:
> 
> I assume you use kernel support in the host as well?  This is exactly 
> the code we should share, IMHO; Xen already has such a thing, and I'd 
> prefer not to have three implementations in the kernel....
> 
> Patches?

no patches yet - it's still prototype. I hope to have something to look 
at tomorrow-ish. With lhype sharing ought to be possible, while Xen's 
model is quite different. I agree that we dont want 3 implementations in 
the kernel ...

	Ingo

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