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
next prev 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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