On 09/03/15 23:25, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> In any case, if what you need resembles a "general virtio filesystem", >> then please just use that -- a virtio-block or virtio-scsi disk, with a >> normal filesystem on it. The protocol is industry standard and the >> performance of the QEMU (and kernel) implementation is splendid. > > Not at all what I'm looking for; I'm looking for a *filesystem*, like > virtio-9p, but with significantly better performance. I agree that > starting from fw_cfg for that is probably a bad idea; it's more that if > a high-performance virtio filesystem existed, it might also work for > fw_cfg. :) Thanks for mentioning "virtio-9p", now I remember what to point at instead of it. I recommend Stefan's slides from this year's KVM forum. https://kvmforum2015.sched.org/event/bca50b64e0fbea734b855498f25d0753 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2015/08/virtio-vsock-zero-configuration.html Thanks Laszlo
