On 2024-03-19 09:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:21:06AM +0100, Tobias Huschle wrote:
On 2024-03-15 11:31, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 09:33:49AM +0100, Tobias Huschle wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > >
>
> Could you remind me pls, what is the kworker doing specifically that
> vhost is relying on?
The kworker is handling the actual data moving in memory if I'm not
mistaking.
I think that is the vhost process itself. Maybe you mean the
guest thread versus the vhost thread then?
My understanding was that vhost writes data into a file descriptor which
then triggers eventfd.
That's at least how I read the vhost code if I remember correctly.
The handler beneath (the kworker) then runs the actual instructions that
move the data to the receiving vhost on the other end of the connection.
Again, I might be wrong here.