From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Haskins Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:49:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4A820391.1090404@gmail.com> References: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6" Cc: 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, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > This implements vhost: a kernel-level backend for virtio, > The main motivation for this work is to reduce virtualization > overhead for virtio by removing system calls on data path, > without guest changes. For virtio-net, this removes up to > 4 system calls per packet: vm exit for kick, reentry for kick, > iothread wakeup for packet, interrupt injection for packet. >=20 > Some more detailed description attached to the patch itself. >=20 > The patches are against 2.6.31-rc4. I'd like them to go into linux-nex= t > and down the road 2.6.32 if possible. Please comment. I will add this series to my benchmark run in the next day or so. Any specific instructions on how to set it up and run? Regards, -Greg --------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqCA5EACgkQP5K2CMvXmqHIvQCfYcoxCyKZvGg3C6EAOrpAEwIH JmkAnRmvb/eJZIoYNF9JHmDPGvTAdvT/ =dirP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA223C963729B04B1689E60E6-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org