From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@vmware.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
sbhatewara@vmware.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:05:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100504170531.1e7122da@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com>
On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:02:25 -0700
Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@vmware.com> wrote:
> Device passthrough technology allows a guest to bypass the hypervisor and drive
> the underlying physical device. VMware has been exploring various ways to
> deliver this technology to users in a manner which is easy to adopt. In this
> process we have prepared an architecture along with Intel - NPA (Network Plugin
> Architecture). NPA allows the guest to use the virtualized NIC vmxnet3 to
> passthrough to a number of physical NICs which support it. The document below
> provides an overview of NPA.
>
> We intend to upgrade the upstreamed vmxnet3 driver to implement NPA so that
> Linux users can exploit the benefits provided by passthrough devices in a
> seamless manner while retaining the benefits of virtualization. The document
> below tries to answer most of the questions which we anticipated. Please let us
> know your comments and queries.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@vmware.com>
Code please. Also, it has to work for all architectures not just VMware and
Intel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 23:02 RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 0:05 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-05-05 0:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:32 ` David Miller
2010-05-05 0:32 ` David Miller
2010-05-05 0:38 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:38 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 2:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 2:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 0:58 ` Chris Wright
2010-05-05 0:58 ` Chris Wright
2010-05-05 19:00 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 19:00 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:29 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:47 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 17:47 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 20:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 21:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 21:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 22:05 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-05 22:05 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 2:03 ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 2:03 ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-05 20:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-06 8:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-05-06 18:04 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 18:04 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 8:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-05-06 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 17:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-06 20:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-13 3:06 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-13 3:06 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-13 5:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-13 5:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 9:49 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 17:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-07-14 17:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-07-14 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-07-14 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-07-14 18:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-14 18:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-14 20:20 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 20:20 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 17:19 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 17:19 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 20:42 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 20:42 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:06 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 21:06 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 9:49 ` Greg KH
2010-05-06 20:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 17:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 19:44 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 19:44 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 8:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-10 20:46 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-10 20:46 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 8:58 ` Avi Kivity
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2010-05-04 23:02 Pankaj Thakkar
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