[PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server

Gregory Haskins gregory.haskins at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 06:51:45 PDT 2009


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> If I understand it correctly, you can at least connect a veth pair
>>> to a bridge, right? Something like
>>>
>>>            veth0 - veth1 - vhost - guest 1 
>>> eth0 - br0-|
>>>            veth2 - veth3 - vhost - guest 2
>>>            
>> Heh, you don't need a bridge in this picture:
>>
>> guest 1 - vhost - veth0 - veth1 - vhost guest 2
> 
> Sure, but the setup I described is the one that I would expect
> to see in practice because it gives you external connectivity.
> 
> Measuring two guests communicating over a veth pair is
> interesting for finding the bottlenecks, but of little
> practical relevance.
> 
> 	Arnd <><

Yeah, this would be the config I would be interested in.

Regards,
-Greg

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