From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:45:00 +0200 Message-ID: <200908131545.00304.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20090812172141.GA29966@redhat.com> <4A83167E.2080701@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Ira W. Snyder" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A83167E.2080701@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > At any rate, I'd like to see performance results before we consider > trying to reuse virtio code. Yes, I agree. I'd also like to do more work on the macvlan extensions to see if it works out without involving a socket. Passing the socket into the vhost_net device is a nice feature of the current implementation that we'd have to give up for something else (e.g. making the vhost a real network interface that you can hook up to a bridge) if it were to use virtio. Unless I can come up with a solution that is clearly superior, I'm taking back my objections on that part for now. Arnd <><