Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> As I pointed out earlier, most code in virtio net is asymmetrical: guest >> provides buffers, host consumes them. Possibly, one could use virtio >> rings in a symmetrical way, but support of existing guest virtio net >> means there's almost no shared code. >> > > The trick is to swap the virtqueues instead. virtio-net is actually > mostly symmetric in just the same way that the physical wires on a > twisted pair ethernet are symmetric (I like how that analogy fits). >
It's already been done between two guests. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization/5423 Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
