The idea is simple, just to pin the guest VM user space and then let host NIC driver has the chance to directly DMA to it. The patches are based on vhost-net backend driver. We add a device which provides proto_ops as sendmsg/recvmsg to vhost-net to send/recv directly to/from the NIC driver. KVM guest who use the vhost-net backend may bind any ethX interface in the host side to get copyless data transfer thru guest virtio-net frontend. We provide multiple submits and asynchronous notifiicaton to vhost-net too. Our goal is to improve the bandwidth and reduce the CPU usage. Exact performance data will be provided later. But for simple test with netperf, we found bindwidth up and CPU % up too, but the bindwidth up ratio is much more than CPU % up ratio. What we have not done yet: packet split support To support GRO Performance tuning what we have done in v1: polish the RCU usage deal with write logging in asynchroush mode in vhost add notifier block for mp device rename page_ctor to mp_port in netdevice.h to make it looks generic add mp_dev_change_flags() for mp device to change NIC state add CONIFG_VHOST_MPASSTHRU to limit the usage when module is not load a small fix for missing dev_put when fail using dynamic minor instead of static minor number a __KERNEL__ protect to mp_get_sock() performance: using netperf with GSO/TSO disabled, 10G NIC, disabled packet split mode, with raw socket case compared to vhost. bindwidth will be from 1.1Gbps to 1.7Gbps CPU % from 120%-140% to 140%-160% -- 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
