Am Freitag, 9. November 2007 schrieb Dor Laor: > I believe that the network interface will quickly go to the kernel since > copy takes most of the > cpu time and qemu does not support scatter gather dma at the moment. > Nevertheless using pio seems good enough, Anthony's suggestion of > notifying the kernel using ioctls > is logical. If we'll run into troubles further on we can add a hypercall > capability and if exist use hypercalls > instead of pios.
Sorry for being late in this thread. We (s390) will need a hypercall as we do not have port I/O. I think it should be possible to default to hypercall on s390 and use pio everywhere else. Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
