From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932199AbZHKXtq (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754892AbZHKXtp (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:49:45 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.26]:43220 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754803AbZHKXto (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:49:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=UbNCDOqYLsemTlGkbfpYX0jRp0hLdVvUdYpQeGN6HvICGDnmGF35eo/wl6POHhND6n vRd487lwF9uLGrHYrQQzZKzRO99QGgSB37sqFhs49OhsXDCjLd8Nk0GtmtpUNhtPuX+r w++L/590VLdaGkUbqPa6un8uNJRfaiZ5h5VS8= Message-ID: <4A820391.1090404@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:49:37 -0400 From: Gregory Haskins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server References: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > This implements vhost: a kernel-level backend for virtio, > The main motivation for this work is to reduce virtualization > overhead for virtio by removing system calls on data path, > without guest changes. For virtio-net, this removes up to > 4 system calls per packet: vm exit for kick, reentry for kick, > iothread wakeup for packet, interrupt injection for packet. >=20 > Some more detailed description attached to the patch itself. >=20 > The patches are against 2.6.31-rc4. I'd like them to go into linux-nex= t > and down the road 2.6.32 if possible. Please comment. I will add this series to my benchmark run in the next day or so. Any specific instructions on how to set it up and run? Regards, -Greg --------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqCA5EACgkQP5K2CMvXmqHIvQCfYcoxCyKZvGg3C6EAOrpAEwIH JmkAnRmvb/eJZIoYNF9JHmDPGvTAdvT/ =dirP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6--