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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: vhost net: performance with ping benchmark
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:14:26 +0300
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:04:44PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:04:41 pm Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > On 08/25/2009 05:22 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think 2.6.32 is pushing it. 
> > > 
> > > 2.6.32 is pushing it, but we need to push it.
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> Get real.  It's not happening.
> 
> We need migration completely solved and tested.  I want to see all the
> features supported, including indirect descs and GSO.

I'm not sure why indirect descs are needed for virtio-net. Comments?

> If this wasn't a new userspace ABI, I'd be all for throwing it in as
> experimental ASAP.
> 
> Rusty.