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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: lulu@redhat.com, tiwei.bie@intel.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com,
	maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, kraxel@redhat.com,
	Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>,
	marcandre.lureau@redhat.com,
	Nikos Dragazis <ndragazis@arrikto.com>,
	changpeng.liu@intel.com, Daniele Buono <dbuono@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Outline for VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_VDPA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:34:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200930113129-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930145752.GB320669@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:57:52PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Architecturally, I think we can have 3 processes:
> > 
> > 
> > VMM -- guest device emulation -- host backend
> > 
> > 
> > to me this looks like increasing our defence in depth strength,
> > as opposed to just shifting things around ...
> 
> Cool idea.
> 
> Performance will be hard because there is separation between the guest
> device emulation and the host backend.

Absolutely. As a tradeoff we could put some data path things in the backend,
e.g. for virtio it is practical to have control path in emulation layer,
data path in the backend.

-- 
MST



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-30 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-28  9:25 Outline for VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_VDPA Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-28 11:21 ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-28 15:32   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-12  2:56     ` Jason Wang
2020-09-29  6:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-29  8:57   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-29 10:04     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-29 18:38       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-30  8:07         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-30 14:57           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-30 15:31             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-30 15:34             ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2020-10-01  7:28             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-10-01 15:13               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-12  3:52           ` Jason Wang

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