On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 06:31 -0700, Dor Laor wrote: > >Hi Rusty, > > I was curious if there are any implementations of your virtio > >substrate for KVM yet? And if not, I can offer help to get this done > as > >I have an immediate need for a ring-buffer like PV channel. > > > >Regards, > >-Greg > > Actually I was planning of doing it. I'm maintaining our not-merged PV > network drivers branch > [started by Ingo Molnar]. > Since they already contain a ring + network logic I though of dropping > the front end > part and hooking with virtio. > I also want to add/use virtio layer for the host side - KVM, Xen and > lguest all have Linux host > backend it makes logic to use a generic host drivers for > networking/block device too. > Actually this is my KVM forum presentation.
OK, I've been working on GSO for virtio net. I'll post once I have it tested. > You're welcome to rip my ring code ;) > > btw: Rusty - what do you think of virtio for the host? You mean backend? For networking it makes a great deal of sense. For block it makes far less sense (COW, weird formats, etc). Cheers, Rusty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
