Re: [Virtio-for-kvm] [PATCH 7/7] userspace virtio

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I think we should hold off on this sort of patch at first.  I know it 
> improves performance, but it's very hack-ish.  I have a similar patch[1] 
> that improves performance more but is even more hack-ish.
>
> I think we have to approach this by not special cases virtio-net to know 
> about the tap fd, but to figure out the interface that virtio-net would 
> need to be efficient, and then refactor the net interface to look like 
> that.  Then we can still support user, pcap, and the other network 
> transports.
>
> [1] http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-virtio/file/75cefe566cea/aio-net.diff
>   

While you are right in principle, high performance networking is long 
overdue in kvm so I applied that patch.  Once a mega async dma framework 
is added to qemu, we'll just revert that patch prior to adding the glue 
to said framework.

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