Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 00/18] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-06-08 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 03:03:21PM +0300, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote: In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receiving

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 00/18] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-06-04 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 03:03:21PM +0300, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote: In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receiving

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 00/18] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-05-28 Thread Anshul Makkar
Hi, We are also trying to develop a solution where we can implement the switch in the user mode (thinking of using VDE) and then rdma packet directly to other end without involving the kernel layers. Is the above solution/patch series implements that using Snabbswitch ethernet switch . Confused

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 00/18] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-05-28 Thread Nikolay Nikolaev
Hello, On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Anshul Makkar anshul.mak...@profitbricks.com wrote: Hi, We are also trying to develop a solution where we can implement the switch in the user mode (thinking of using VDE) and then rdma packet directly to other end without involving the kernel

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 00/18] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2014-05-27 Thread Nikolay Nikolaev
In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receiving traffic from a guest inside QEMU/KVM which runs an unmodified