Anthony Liguori wrote: > I think we should hold off on this sort of patch at first. I know it > improves performance, but it's very hack-ish. I have a similar patch[1] > that improves performance more but is even more hack-ish. > > I think we have to approach this by not special cases virtio-net to know > about the tap fd, but to figure out the interface that virtio-net would > need to be efficient, and then refactor the net interface to look like > that. Then we can still support user, pcap, and the other network > transports. > > [1] http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-virtio/file/75cefe566cea/aio-net.diff >
While you are right in principle, high performance networking is long overdue in kvm so I applied that patch. Once a mega async dma framework is added to qemu, we'll just revert that patch prior to adding the glue to said framework. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
