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Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0
From: |
Michael S. Tsirkin |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:04:56 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Jens Osterkamp wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >
> > >> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.
> > >>
> > >
> > > What about Or Gerlitz' raw backend driver ? I did not see it go in yet,
> > > or did
> > > I miss something ?
> > >
> >
> > The patch seems to have not been updated after the initial posting and
> > the first feedback cycle.
> >
> > I'm generally inclined to oppose the functionality as I don't think it
> > offers any advantages over the existing backends.
>
> There are two reasons why I think this backend is important:
>
> - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet
> port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network priviledges
> (virtual ethernet port aggregator, VEPA) using the macvlan subsystem.
>
> - As a counterpart to the vhost_net driver, providing an identical
> user interface with or without vhost_net acceleration in the kernel.
>
> Arnd <><
I think raw sockets also support RX mac/vlan filtering in kernel, which
might be faster than doing it in virtio in userspace as it's done now.
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MST
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, Anthony Liguori, 2009/10/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, Anthony Liguori, 2009/10/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Arnd Bergmann, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Anthony Liguori, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=