From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752653AbZHLNvy (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:51:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752026AbZHLNvx (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:51:53 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.217.213]:50162 "EHLO mail-gx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbZHLNvw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:51:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=LtOk9oQDBRu4UDJi6JYGOLRRxErspbNvvLe2Yf1NFZYumdgkR1Gn6RX2Nks2qSEqi7 C5u6OsRQ3F5K/pT6P3KQZ2Jm2593A+CxmkPhc0LXiHUt75vvZ5b7rAW312ozC2arNH1P SF/CNtrogzocj1vPW3UbNPrPMk3ENpZffwWqQ= Message-ID: <4A82C8F1.4030703@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:51:45 -0400 From: Gregory Haskins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , hpa@zytor.com, Patrick Mullaney Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server References: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> <200908121452.01802.arnd@arndb.de> <20090812130612.GC29200@redhat.com> <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig87A30C9A577D0E621E7B2C9A" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig87A30C9A577D0E621E7B2C9A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> If I understand it correctly, you can at least connect a veth pair >>> to a bridge, right? Something like >>> >>> veth0 - veth1 - vhost - guest 1=20 >>> eth0 - br0-| >>> veth2 - veth3 - vhost - guest 2 >>> =20 >> Heh, you don't need a bridge in this picture: >> >> guest 1 - vhost - veth0 - veth1 - vhost guest 2 >=20 > Sure, but the setup I described is the one that I would expect > to see in practice because it gives you external connectivity. >=20 > Measuring two guests communicating over a veth pair is > interesting for finding the bottlenecks, but of little > practical relevance. >=20 > Arnd <>< Yeah, this would be the config I would be interested in. Regards, -Greg --------------enig87A30C9A577D0E621E7B2C9A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqCyPEACgkQP5K2CMvXmqHKgwCbBrxhIdqOX31o4APQvc7hWcWt y0oAn1INe0wEK/9n2tSfeBeMCClGjSXU =S5BJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig87A30C9A577D0E621E7B2C9A--