Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-19 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
less we have this feature? > > Best regards, > Pankaj This feature is unused by vhost ATM. > > From: "Jason Wang" > > To: "Pankaj Gupta" > > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, > > stefa...@redhat.com, aligu...@amazon.co

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-19 Thread Pankaj Gupta
uot; > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, > stefa...@redhat.com, aligu...@amazon.com > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 8:11:29 AM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in > additionto vhost param' > > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-14 Thread Jason Wang
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > > vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when > > guest don't have MSI-X support. > > Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts > > like DPDK and s

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-12 Thread Pankaj Gupta
> > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > > > vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when > > > guest don't have MSI-X support. > > > Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts > > > like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of > > > guests wit

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-12 Thread Pankaj Gupta
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > > vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when > > guest don't have MSI-X support. > > Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts > > like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of > > guests without MSI-X suppo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-12 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when > guest don't have MSI-X support. > Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts > like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of > guests without MSI-X support is getting

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-11 Thread Pankaj Gupta
vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when guest don't have MSI-X support. Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of guests without MSI-X support is getting less popular. Its ok to remove this extra option and enable vhost on