Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] macvtap: TX zero copy between guest and host kernel

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:29:52 +0200

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:00:25AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 17:22 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I would expect this to hurt performance significantly.
> > We could do this for asynchronous requests only to avoid the
> > slowdown. 
> 
> Is kiocb in sendmsg helpful here? It is not used now.
> 
> Shirley

Precisely. This is what the patch from Xin Xiaohui does.  That code
already seems to do most of what you are trying to do, right?

The main thing missing seems to be macvtap integration, so that we can fall back
on data copy if zero copy is unavailable?
How hard would it be to basically link the mp and macvtap modules
together to get us this functionality? Anyone?

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MST