From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv1Lv-0004cH-PS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 05:31:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv1Lo-000717-9N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 05:31:23 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f180.google.com ([74.125.82.180]:34051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv1Lo-00070y-3M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 05:31:16 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id x48so977354wes.11 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 02:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53997360.3070307@6wind.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:31:12 +0200 From: Vincent JARDIN MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20140610184818.2e490419@nbschild1> <53978375.6090707@6wind.com> <87ppie1v4r.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20140612094413.15e56938@nbschild1> In-Reply-To: <20140612094413.15e56938@nbschild1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Using virtio for inter-VM communication List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Henning Schild Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Markus Armbruster , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 12/06/2014 09:44, Henning Schild wrote: >> It may be used, but that doesn't mean it's maintained, or robust >> >against abuse. My advice is to steer clear of it. > Could you elaborate on why you advice against it? +1 elaborate please. beside the DPDK source code, some other common use cases: - HPC: using inter VM shared memory for ultra low latency inter VM computation Best regards, Vincent