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Subject: Re: About a zero copy framework
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:21:09 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Thomas Monjalon
<thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 10/12/2013 17:40, GongJinrong :
>>       I am trying to develop an open source guest/host zero copy
>> communication channel framework for kvm, I found DPDK has similar module,
>> but it seems couples with intel NICs, how can I use DPDK to do the zero copy
>> for kvm without intel NICs(host to guest or guest to guest)? I only need a
>> data channel framework.
>
> Have you seen virtio-net-pmd ?
>         http://dpdk.org/browse/virtio-net-pmd
> It could be close to what you want.
>
> --
> Thomas

You can also look into DPDK + OpenVSwitch (OVS). Intel integrated DPDK
in order to achieve high-speed packet delivery with zero-copy.