Re: [PATCH 0/2] vhot-net: Use kvm_memslots instead of vhost_memory to translate GPA to HVA

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于 2011/12/16,星期五 15:05, Sasha Levin 写道:
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 13:32 +0800, zanghongyong@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Hongyong Zang<zanghongyong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Vhost-net uses its own vhost_memory, which results from user space (qemu) info,
to translate GPA to HVA. Since kernel's kvm structure already maintains the
address relationship in its member *kvm_memslots*, these patches use kernel's
kvm_memslots directly without the need of initialization and maintenance of
vhost_memory.
Conceptually, vhost isn't aware of KVM - it's just a driver which moves
data from vq to a tap device and back. You can't simply add KVM specific
code into vhost.

Whats the performance benefit?

But vhost-net is only used in virtualization situation. vhost_memory is maintained
by user space qemu.
In this way, the memory relationship can be accquired from kernel without the
need of maintainence of vhost_memory from qemu.

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