Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [RFC PATCH v8 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net. | From | Shirley Ma <> | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:51:52 -0700 |
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Hello Xiaohui,
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:53 +0800, Xin, Xiaohui wrote: > >Since vhost-net already supports macvtap/tun backends, do you think > >whether it's better to implement zero copy in macvtap/tun than > inducing > >a new media passthrough device here? > > > > I'm not sure if there will be more duplicated code in the kernel.
I think it should be less duplicated code in the kernel if we use macvtap to support what media passthrough driver here. Since macvtap has support virtio_net head and offloading already, the only missing func is zero copy. Also QEMU supports macvtap, we just need add a zero copy flag in option.
Thanks Shirley
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