Hello Xiaohui, On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:53 +0800, Xin, Xiaohui wrote: > >Since vhost-net already supports macvtap/tun backends, do you think > >whether it's better to implement zero copy in macvtap/tun than > inducing > >a new media passthrough device here? > > > > I'm not sure if there will be more duplicated code in the kernel.
I think it should be less duplicated code in the kernel if we use macvtap to support what media passthrough driver here. Since macvtap has support virtio_net head and offloading already, the only missing func is zero copy. Also QEMU supports macvtap, we just need add a zero copy flag in option. Thanks Shirley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
