Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

Carsten Otte
2007-05-14T13:36:43Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> But I agree that the growing code base is a problem. With the block
> driver we can probably keep the host side in userspace, but to do the
> same for networking is much more work. I do think (now) that it is doable.
I agree that networking needs to be handled in the host kernel. We go
out to userspace for signaling at this time, but that's simply broken.
All our userspace does is do a system call next.

so long,
Carsten