> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coque...@redhat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2024 08.47 > > Hi Stephen, > > On 10/30/24 22:56, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The current tap device is slow both due to architectural choices and > the > > overhead of Linux system calls. I am exploring a how to fix that but > some > > of the choices require some tradeoffs. Which leads to some open > questions:
[...] > > Why not just use Virtio-user PMD with Vhost-kernel backend [0]? > Are there any missing features that io_uring can address? > > Regards, > Maxime > > [0]: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/howto/virtio_user_as_exception_path.html Thanks for the pointer, Maxime. After taking a look at it, I think this is exactly what we were looking for!
