From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: More virtio users
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:09:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466BB1AF.1000601@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070610080602.GD3738@rhun.haifa.ibm.com>
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:57AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> It is worthwhile, when designing virtio, to keep in mind as many
>> possible users as possible. In addition to block and net, I see at
>> least the following:
>>
>> - vmgl (paravirtualized 3D graphics)
>> [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/]
>> - scsi (for tape, cd writer, etc.)
>> - framebuffer (with just one request to share the framebuffer?)
>>
>> There are probably more. Any ideas?
>>
>
> - Fast inter-domain networking, a-la XenSocket.
>
Yup.
> - PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball
> device (e.g., crypto-accelerators).
>
Won't all high-bandwidth traffic be through dma, bypassing virtio?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-10 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-10 7:33 More virtio users Avi Kivity
2007-06-10 8:06 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-10 8:09 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-06-12 22:07 ` [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-12 23:40 ` [kvm-devel] " Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-12 23:54 ` [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-13 5:28 ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-14 19:41 ` Caitlin Bestler
[not found] ` <1EF1E44200D82B47BD5BA61171E8CE9D04269D6E-Wx+fQJ8T8QJuheSVJXE+poKqz+Jmtwh+qs7JOtOhHmkAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-14 23:39 ` [Xen-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <200706150139.36770.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-15 16:26 ` Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-10 8:13 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-10 8:16 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-10 12:37 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 6:41 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-11 7:29 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 7:33 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 0:31 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 6:24 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 7:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-11 8:16 ` [Xen-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2007-06-11 8:19 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-11 19:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-11 23:19 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 0:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <1181603983.16428.100.camel__36651.2330751449$1181608748$gmane$org@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-12 3:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-12 4:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-11 13:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2007-06-11 3:04 ` ron minnich
2007-06-12 22:01 ` [kvm-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <200706130001.21431.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-14 16:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
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