On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Jens Osterkamp wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > >> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. > > >> > > > > > > What about Or Gerlitz' raw backend driver ? I did not see it go in yet, > > > or did > > > I miss something ? > > > > > > > The patch seems to have not been updated after the initial posting and > > the first feedback cycle. > > > > I'm generally inclined to oppose the functionality as I don't think it > > offers any advantages over the existing backends. > > There are two reasons why I think this backend is important: > > - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet > port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network priviledges > (virtual ethernet port aggregator, VEPA) using the macvlan subsystem. > > - As a counterpart to the vhost_net driver, providing an identical > user interface with or without vhost_net acceleration in the kernel. > > Arnd <><
I think raw sockets also support RX mac/vlan filtering in kernel, which might be faster than doing it in virtio in userspace as it's done now. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
