[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] zero copy networking, bridge vs macvtap, co-maintainership, pci

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Thu Jun 21 13:58:19 UTC 2012


Hi all,

I'd like to submit my name as someone who would like to attend the Kernel
Summit this year.

I'd like to discuss:
   - zero copy networking
     Driving a hardware device from userspace/VM let you use a NIC
     without extra data copies, today, which might improve
     throughput/CPU by about 10% in some setups, but what is the way
     forward for setup that won't/can't dedicate a NIC to an app/VM?
     Work is ongoing on tracking usage of specific pages in
     net core, this addresses one of the requirements, but how to make
     these setups safe against malicious apps/VMs?
     What to do about tcp restransmits etc?

   - Bridge versus macvtap
     macvtap stated out without bridging features for setups such
     as VEPA, which seemed to gain nothing from standard bridge
     functionality, but seems to be gaining features such a bridging.
     Is anything to be gained from integrating it back into bridge?

   - co-maintainership issues. Being one of co-maintainers poses
     some challenges on top of the usual ones for a maintainer.
     Who picks up each patch? Is a patch acceptable to both maintainers?
     etc.  This is not at all unique though so I would like to learn
     from others who maintain in a group: what works?

   - PCI hotplug issues, this has already been covered in a previous
     thread

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MST


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