From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:05:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031150547.GE25650@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFO3S43HEKiLtRMzYije_8K88zyhiz86HE6bUjWRvaE5cLxviA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:20:34AM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:24:19AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> On 10/21/2012 05:39 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:02 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
> >> > <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> qemu supports all these features.
> >> >> E.g. to access the host fs use:
> >> >> qemu ... \
> >> >> -fsdev local,security_model=passthrough,id=fsdev-root,path=/your/root/,readonly
> >> >> \
> >> >> -device virtio-9p-pci,id=fs-root,fsdev=fsdev-root,mount_tag=rootshare
> >> >
> >> > IIRC, QEMU uses SLIRP non-root zero-config networking which is much
> >> > more limited than what LKVM offers out of the box.
> >>
> >> Curious, what are the differences?
> >>
> > Me too, especially as we discussed replacing SLIRP with lkvm code for
> > userspace networking and decided (for reasons I do not remember) that it
> > lacks futures SLIRP has. Was it host port redirection?
>
> Yes. Currently, there is no host to guest port forward support in lkvm.
> However, it's faster than slirp.
> e.g. tcp bandwidth in a 100Mb/s environment
> lkvm's userspace networking ~90Mb/s v.s qemu's slirp ~10Mb/s
>
This is not entirely slirp fault BTW. If you run QEMU with "-usbdevice tablet", slirp
bandwidth goes up to 80-90Mb too.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-12 11:34 [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0 Pekka Enberg
2012-10-12 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-18 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-18 10:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-10-16 2:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-16 14:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-20 7:04 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-20 18:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-21 3:07 ` Dave Airlie
2012-10-21 3:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-10-21 11:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-21 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-21 14:02 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-10-21 15:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-21 17:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-21 17:40 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-10-21 17:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-21 17:54 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-10-21 18:04 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-10-21 18:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-22 9:26 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-21 18:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-21 15:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-10-22 9:24 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-22 10:16 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-23 2:20 ` Asias He
2012-10-31 15:05 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2012-10-21 11:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-21 11:29 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-10-21 22:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-14 5:24 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-11-14 6:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
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