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Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM comm
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:33:54 +0200 |
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:54:48AM +0000, Avi Cohen (A) wrote:
> There is already a virtio mechanism in which 2 VMs assigned a virtio device
> , are communicating via a veth pair in the host .
> KVM just passes a pointer of the page of the writer VM to the reader VM -
> resulting in excellent performance (no vSwitch in the middle)
What exactly do you refer to?
> **Question**: What is the advantage of vhost-pci compared to this ?
> Best Regards
> Avi
I suspect what's missing in this thread is the original motivation rfc:
http://virtualization.linux-foundation.narkive.com/A7FkzAgp/rfc-vhost-user-enhancements-for-vm2vm-communication
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Wang, Wei W, 2017/12/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Avi Cohen (A), 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Jason Wang, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Wei Wang, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/12/08