On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:02:31AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:15:58AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:54:44PM +0800, Liu Ping Fan wrote: > >> >> This is a emulation to virtio-blk dataplane, which push the data > >> >> handling out of biglock. And it is a try to implement this process > >> >> in userspace, while vhost-net in kernel. > >> > > >> > What's the motivation for doing this? > >> > >> I haven't looked carefully at the patches, but I don't think we should > >> "cheat" when it comes to virtio-net. I think it's useful to have a > >> baseline proof of concept but I think we should focus on making the > >> network layer re-entrant.
By the way I agree on this one. We allowed the "cheat" for block because there's no vhost-blk upstream yet. -- MST
