Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:47:41AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
I don't think we really know what the One True Usage model is for VF
devices.  Chris Wright has some ideas, I have some ideas and Yu Zhao has
some ideas.  I bet there's other people who have other ideas too.

I'd love to hear those ideas.

We've been talking about avoiding hardware passthrough entirely and just backing a virtio-net backend driver by a dedicated VF in the host. That avoids a huge amount of guest-facing complexity, let's migration Just Work, and should give the same level of performance.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Rumor has it, there is some Xen code floating around to support this
already, is that true?

thanks,

greg k-h
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