On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:46:34AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 01:22:58PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:42:39AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > By the way, do we know anything about likely performance of NFS/VSOCK? > > > > virtio-vsock is designed for reliable host<->guest communication, not > > performance. It is not a fast-path to avoid Ethernet/IP. I haven't run > > benchmarks on NFS over AF_VSOCK but don't expect its performance to set > > it apart from virtio-net. > > OK. > > But if we implement NFS/VSOCK and it turns out to be a success, I expect > people will start using it for things that weren't expected and > complaining about performance issues. > > I guess I'm not too concerned about performance of the initial > implementation but it'd be nice to know that there's the possibility to > optimize later on. > > But if our answer will be just to go figure out how to use a proper > NFS/TCP mount instead then I suppose that's OK. Yes, virtio-vsock can be extended in the future for performance optimizations. Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
