From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Avi Cohen (A)" <avi.cohen@huawei.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org"
<virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>,
"Yang, Zhiyong" <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>,
"jan.kiszka@siemens.com" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"marcandre.lureau@redhat.com" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:33:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171207152806-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B84047ECBD981D4B93EAE5A6245AA3610159323B@FRAEML521-MBX.china.huawei.com>
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:54:48AM +0000, Avi Cohen (A) wrote:
> There is already a virtio mechanism in which 2 VMs assigned a virtio device , are communicating via a veth pair in the host .
> KVM just passes a pointer of the page of the writer VM to the reader VM - resulting in excellent performance (no vSwitch in the middle)
What exactly do you refer to?
> **Question**: What is the advantage of vhost-pci compared to this ?
> Best Regards
> Avi
I suspect what's missing in this thread is the original motivation rfc:
http://virtualization.linux-foundation.narkive.com/A7FkzAgp/rfc-vhost-user-enhancements-for-vm2vm-communication
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-07 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-05 3:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication Wei Wang
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/7] vhost-user: share the vhost-user protocol related structures Wei Wang
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/7] vhost-pci-net: add vhost-pci-net Wei Wang
2017-12-05 14:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-05 15:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-05 15:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-05 16:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-05 16:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-05 17:00 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-12-05 18:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-06 10:17 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-06 12:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/7] virtio/virtio-pci.c: add vhost-pci-net-pci Wei Wang
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/7] vhost-pci-slave: add vhost-pci slave implementation Wei Wang
2017-12-05 15:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-14 17:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-14 17:48 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] vhost-user: VHOST_USER_SET_VHOST_PCI msg Wei Wang
2017-12-05 16:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-06 10:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-12-15 12:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/7] vhost-pci-slave: handle VHOST_USER_SET_VHOST_PCI Wei Wang
2017-12-05 3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/7] virtio/vhost.c: vhost-pci needs remote gpa Wei Wang
2017-12-05 16:05 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-06 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-12-05 4:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication no-reply
2017-12-05 7:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Jason Wang
2017-12-05 7:15 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-05 7:19 ` Jason Wang
2017-12-05 8:49 ` Avi Cohen (A)
2017-12-05 10:36 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-05 14:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-05 15:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-05 16:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-06 13:49 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-06 16:09 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-06 16:27 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 3:57 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-07 5:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-07 5:34 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-07 6:31 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 7:54 ` Avi Cohen (A)
2017-12-07 8:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 8:31 ` Jason Wang
2017-12-07 10:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 13:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-12-07 9:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Wei Wang
2017-12-07 13:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 14:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-07 16:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 16:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-07 17:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 17:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-07 18:28 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-07 23:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-08 6:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-08 14:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-08 16:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-09 16:08 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-08 6:43 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-08 8:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-09 16:23 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-11 11:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-11 13:53 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-12 10:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-13 8:11 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-13 12:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-13 15:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-13 20:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-13 20:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-14 15:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-15 10:33 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-15 12:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-13 21:50 ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-14 15:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-14 16:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-14 16:39 ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-14 16:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-14 16:50 ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-14 18:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-14 5:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Wei Wang
2017-12-14 17:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-15 9:10 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-15 12:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-14 18:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-15 10:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-12-15 12:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-06 16:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-19 11:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-19 14:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-19 17:05 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-20 4:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-20 6:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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