Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:47:41AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >> I don't think we really know what the One True Usage model is for VF >> devices. Chris Wright has some ideas, I have some ideas and Yu Zhao has >> some ideas. I bet there's other people who have other ideas too. >> > > I'd love to hear those ideas. > We've been talking about avoiding hardware passthrough entirely and just backing a virtio-net backend driver by a dedicated VF in the host. That avoids a huge amount of guest-facing complexity, let's migration Just Work, and should give the same level of performance. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Rumor has it, there is some Xen code floating around to support this > already, is that true? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
