Re: [ovs-discuss] IVSHMEM device performance

2016-03-30 Thread Eli Britstein
Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply. Maybe I didn't explain well. Indeed, I use the IVSHMEM with zero-copy methodology. I don't do any packet copying. As such, I don't have any memcpy penalties (as I don't use it). Also, vhost-user device doesn't suit my needs, as I truly want a pure zero-copy system

Re: [ovs-discuss] IVSHMEM device performance

2016-03-30 Thread Kavanagh, Mark B
Hi Eli, I'm curious as to why you want to use IVSHMEM devices in a setup like this - the whole point of IVSHMEM devices is that the same memory is shared between host and guest, such that mbufs can be passed directly between rings 'zero-copy', thus side-stepping the performance penalties inhere