From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6oOI-00041D-S6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2016 20:15:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6oOC-0006lV-DO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2016 20:15:37 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:6080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6oOB-0006kP-Qc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2016 20:15:32 -0400 From: Wei Wang Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 16:11:31 +0800 Message-Id: <1464509494-159509-4-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1464509494-159509-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> References: <1464509494-159509-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6 Resend] Vhost-pci RFC: Benefits to KVM List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org, mst@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Wei Wang Signed-off-by: Wei Wang --- Benefits | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Benefits diff --git a/Benefits b/Benefits new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d10485 --- /dev/null +++ b/Benefits @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The vhost-pci design provides KVM with a faster and more scalable inter-VM +communication mechanism. In NFV usages and today's virtualized datacenters, +where multiple VMs connect to a centralized vswitch to communicate, the more +the VMs connect to (or chained via) the vswitch, the lower the inter-VM +communication throughput will be. The vhost-pci design successfully resolves +this scalability issue and makes KVM a better hypervisor for NFV and +datacenters. + -- 1.8.3.1