Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] introduce virtio net dataplane

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:02:31AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:15:58AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:54:44PM +0800, Liu Ping Fan wrote:
> >> >> This is a emulation to virtio-blk dataplane, which push the data
> >> >> handling out of biglock. And it is a try to implement this process
> >> >> in userspace, while vhost-net in kernel.
> >> >
> >> > What's the motivation for doing this?
> >> 
> >> I haven't looked carefully at the patches, but I don't think we should
> >> "cheat" when it comes to virtio-net.  I think it's useful to have a
> >> baseline proof of concept but I think we should focus on making the
> >> network layer re-entrant.

By the way I agree on this one. We allowed the
"cheat" for block because there's no vhost-blk upstream yet.

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