Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:47:51 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support |
| |
Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> What we would rather do in KVM, is have the VFs appear in the host as >> standard network devices. We would then like to back our existing PV >> driver to this VF directly bypassing the host networking stack. A key >> feature here is being able to fill the VF's receive queue with guest >> memory instead of host kernel memory so that you can get zero-copy >> receive traffic. This will perform just as well as doing passthrough >> (at least) and avoid all that ugliness of dealing with SR-IOV in the guest. >> > > This argues for ignoring the SR-IOV mess completely.
It does, but VF-in-host is not the only model that we want to support. It's just the most appealing.
There will definitely be people who want to run VF-in-guest.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
|  |