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: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:51:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4A82C8F1.4030703@gmail.com> References: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> <200908121452.01802.arnd@arndb.de> <20090812130612.GC29200@redhat.com> <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig87A30C9A577D0E621E7B2C9A" 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 To: Arnd Bergmann Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.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--