From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:17:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4614A294.3000607@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175728768.12230.593.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Rusty Russell wrote:
> You didn't quote Anthony's point about "it's more about there not being
> good enough userspace interfaces to do network IO."
>
> It's easier to write a kernel-space network driver, but it's not
> obviously the right thing to do until we can show that an efficient
> packet-level userspace interface isn't possible. I don't think that's
> been done, and it would be interesting to try.
>
In the case of networking, the copyful interfaces on receive are driven
by the hardware not knowing how to split the header from the data. On
transmit I agree, it could be made copyless from userspace (somthing
like sendfilev, only not file oriented).
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-05 7:17 UTC|newest]
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2007-04-04 23:19 ` [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work Rusty Russell
2007-04-05 7:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-04-06 1:02 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-08 5:36 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-08 9:04 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-04-09 2:50 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-09 7:10 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-09 9:46 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-09 13:38 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-10 8:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-10 8:19 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
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2007-04-10 8:58 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-10 11:21 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
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2007-04-10 11:50 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-10 12:17 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
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2007-04-10 12:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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2007-04-10 12:49 ` Avi Kivity
2007-04-11 3:53 ` [kvm-devel] " Rusty Russell
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2007-04-11 4:26 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-11 13:23 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-11 14:28 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-11 23:30 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-12 3:32 ` Avi Kivity
2007-04-16 0:22 ` [kvm-devel] " Rusty Russell
2007-04-16 5:13 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-05 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
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2007-04-05 9:58 ` Avi Kivity
2007-04-05 10:26 ` [kvm-devel] " Ingo Molnar
2007-04-05 11:26 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-05 11:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-06 1:16 ` [kvm-devel] " Rusty Russell
2007-04-06 18:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-05 10:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-05 14:32 ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-04-06 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-06 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
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