lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2009]   [Sep]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCHv5 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:08:23PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> >> No, what I mean is how do you surface multiple ethernet and consoles to
> >> the guests? For Ira's case, I think he needs at minimum at least one of
> >> each, and he mentioned possibly having two unique ethernets at one point.
> >>
> >> His slave boards surface themselves as PCI devices to the x86
> >> host. So how do you use that to make multiple vhost-based devices (say
> >> two virtio-nets, and a virtio-console) communicate across the transport?
> >>
> >> There are multiple ways to do this, but what I am saying is that
> >> whatever is conceived will start to look eerily like a vbus-connector,
> >> since this is one of its primary purposes ;)
> >
> > Can't all this be in userspace?
>
> Can you outline your proposal?
>
> -Greg
>

Userspace in x86 maps a PCI region, uses it for communication with ppc?



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2009-09-15 23:31    [W:0.296 / U:0.336 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site