[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/20] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-03-04 Thread Antonios Motakis
In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receiving traffic from a guest inside QEMU/KVM which runs an unmodified virtio-

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/20] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-05-20 Thread Nikolay Nikolaev
Hello Paolo, On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 04/03/2014 19:22, Antonios Motakis ha scritto: > > In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a >> virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target >> is to >> run the n

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/20] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-05-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 20/05/2014 13:22, Nikolay Nikolaev ha scritto: I am preparing a new version of this patch series and would like to test (or even rebase?) it on top of your patch series. What is its current status? Is there a tree that I can track and use for rebases? Hu Tao has been posting updates lately.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/20] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-03-04 Thread Antonios Motakis
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 04/03/2014 19:22, Antonios Motakis ha scritto: > > In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a >> virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target >> is to >> run the network backend

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/20] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-03-04 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 04/03/2014 19:22, Antonios Motakis ha scritto: In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receiving traffic from a gu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/20] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-03-04 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 04/03/2014 19:33, Antonios Motakis ha scritto: Hello Paolo, Yes we saw your series today, and we plan to try it out. Any idea on when your series will get in? Then we can probably remove our own implementation for shared memory. It's planned for 2.1, together with memory hotplug which is n