Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > This implements vhost: a kernel-level backend for virtio, > The main motivation for this work is to reduce virtualization > overhead for virtio by removing system calls on data path, > without guest changes. For virtio-net, this removes up to > 4 system calls per packet: vm exit for kick, reentry for kick, > iothread wakeup for packet, interrupt injection for packet. > > Some more detailed description attached to the patch itself. > > The patches are against 2.6.31-rc4. I'd like them to go into linux-next > and down the road 2.6.32 if possible. Please comment. I will add this series to my benchmark run in the next day or so. Any specific instructions on how to set it up and run? Regards, -Greg
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