Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

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Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

We discussed this before, and I still think this could be directly derived
from struct virtqueue, in the same way that vring_virtqueue is derived from
struct virtqueue.

I prefer keeping it simple. Much of abstraction in virtio is due to the
fact that it needs to work on top of different hardware emulations:
lguest,kvm, possibly others in the future.  vhost is always working on
real hardware, using eventfd as the interface, so it does not need that.

Actually, vhost may not always be limited to real hardware.

We may on day use vhost as the basis of a driver domain. There's quite a lot of interest in this for networking.

At any rate, I'd like to see performance results before we consider trying to reuse virtio code.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
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