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...een interesting several years ago, but now that linux has >> > vhost-net in kernel, the only point seems to be to >> > speed up networking on non-linux hosts. >> >> Data plane just means having a dedicated thread for virtqueue processing >> that doesn't hold qemu_mutex. >> >> Of course we're going to do this in QEMU. It's a no brainer. But not >> as a separate device, just as an improvement to the existing userspace >> virtio-net. >> >> > Since non-linux does not have kvm, I doubt virtio is a bottleneck. >>...

...een interesting several years ago, but now that linux has >> > vhost-net in kernel, the only point seems to be to >> > speed up networking on non-linux hosts. >> >> Data plane just means having a dedicated thread for virtqueue processing >> that doesn't hold qemu_mutex. >> >> Of course we're going to do this in QEMU. It's a no brainer. But not >> as a separate device, just as an improvement to the existing userspace >> virtio-net. >> >> > Since non-linux does not have kvm, I doubt virtio is a bottleneck. >>...

...ral years ago, but now that linux has >>> > vhost-net in kernel, the only point seems to be to >>> > speed up networking on non-linux hosts. >>> >>> Data plane just means having a dedicated thread for virtqueue processing >>> that doesn't hold qemu_mutex. >>> >>> Of course we're going to do this in QEMU. It's a no brainer. But not >>> as a separate device, just as an improvement to the existing userspace >>> virtio-net. >>> >>> > Since non-linux does not have kvm, I doubt virtio i...