vhost net: performance with ping benchmark

Anthony Liguori anthony at codemonkey.ws
Tue Aug 25 06:08:05 PDT 2009


Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> My preference is ring proxying.  Not we'll need ring proxying (or at  
>> least event proxying) for non-MSI guests.
>>     
>
> Exactly, that's what I meant earlier. That's enough, isn't it, Anthony?
>   

It is if we have a working implementation that demonstrates the 
userspace interface is sufficient.  Once it goes into the upstream 
kernel, we need to have backwards compatibility code in QEMU forever to 
support that kernel version.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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