Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

From: Avi Kivity <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:35:48 +0200

On 12/22/2009 07:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> We're not talking about vaporware.  vhost-net exists.
>>      
> Is it as fast as the alacrityvm setup then e.g. for network traffic?
>
> Last I heard the first could do wirespeed 10Gbit/s on standard hardware.
>    

That was with zero-copy IIRC, which is known broken.  There's nothing 
alacrity-specific about zerocopy (and in fact the first zerocopy patches 
were from Rusty).

> Can vhost-net do the same thing?
>    

I've heard unofficial numbers which approach that, but let's wait for 
the official ones.

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