Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-19 Thread Pankaj Gupta
...@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefa...@redhat.com, aligu...@amazon.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 8:11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in additionto vhost param' On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Pankaj Gupta pagu...@redhat.com

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-19 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
. From: Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com To: Pankaj Gupta pagu...@redhat.com Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefa...@redhat.com, aligu...@amazon.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 8:11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-14 Thread Jason Wang
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Pankaj Gupta pagu...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when guest don't have MSI-X support. Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts like

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-12 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when guest don't have MSI-X support. Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of guests without MSI-X support is getting

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-12 Thread Pankaj Gupta
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when guest don't have MSI-X support. Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of guests without MSI-X support is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-12 Thread Pankaj Gupta
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50:05AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when guest don't have MSI-X support. Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of guests without MSI-X

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] net: 'Remove vhostforce option in addition to vhost param'

2015-02-11 Thread Pankaj Gupta
vhostforce was added to enable use of vhost when guest don't have MSI-X support. Now, we have scenarios which dont use interrupts like DPDK and still use vhost. Also, performance of guests without MSI-X support is getting less popular. Its ok to remove this extra option and enable vhost