Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >> We discussed this before, and I still think this could be directly derived >> from struct virtqueue, in the same way that vring_virtqueue is derived from >> struct virtqueue. >> > > I prefer keeping it simple. Much of abstraction in virtio is due to the > fact that it needs to work on top of different hardware emulations: > lguest,kvm, possibly others in the future. vhost is always working on > real hardware, using eventfd as the interface, so it does not need that. >
Actually, vhost may not always be limited to real hardware. We may on day use vhost as the basis of a driver domain. There's quite a lot of interest in this for networking. At any rate, I'd like to see performance results before we consider trying to reuse virtio code. Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
