Hello, I am writing on behalf of a newly developing open source project called Snabb Switch (http://snabb.co/snabbswitch/). This is a Lua-scriptable userspace vswitch that's designed for performance, as funny as that may sound at first :-). The goal is to have an über-extensible ethernet fabric that runs on any kernel and can be used to implement the wildest of network virtualization fantasies. The project has a technical goal of supporting zero-copy I/O both towards physical NICs and virtual NICs in KVM guests. The physical side is up and running now (http://blog.lukego.com/blog/2013/01/05/kernel-bypass-networking-in-snabb-switch/) and it's time to start working on the virtual KVM side. So! We need a way for the userspace switch process to talk directly with a KVM guest. That sounds like an equivalent of tap+vhost_net that connects the guest's virtio driver directly with another userspace process instead of with the host kernel (as tap+vhost_net does today). I can take care of the switch side of this virtio interface but I would absolutely love help with the KVM side. Is anybody interested in hacking this or otherwise contributing towards an implementation? It would be a huge contribution to the project. And thank you for reading this far :-) and many thanks to Stefan Hajnocz for his patient help already! Cheers, -Luke -- 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
