Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:48:35 +0200 |
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On Thursday 13 August 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Unfortunately, this also implies that you could no longer simply use the > packet socket interface as you do currently, as I realized only now. > This obviously has a significant impact on your user space interface.
Also, if we do the copy in the transport, it definitely means that we can't get to zero-copy RX/TX from guest space any more. The current vhost_net driver doesn't do that yet, but could be extended in the same way that I'm hoping to do it for macvtap.
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