On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > My idea for that was to open multiple file descriptors to the same > > macvtap device and let the kernel figure out the right thing to > > do with that. You can do the same with raw packed sockets in case > > of vhost_net, but I wouldn't want to add more complexity to the > > tun/tap driver for this. > > > Or get tap out of the way entirely. The packets should not have > to go out to user space at all (see veth) How does veth relate to that, do you mean vhost_net? With vhost_net, you could still open multiple sockets, only the access is in the kernel. Obviously, once it all is in the kernel, that could be done under the covers, but I think it would be cleaner to treat vhost_net purely as a way to bypass the syscalls for user space, with as little as possible visible impact otherwise. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
