Re: Using virtio for inter-VM communication

2014-06-12 Thread Vincent JARDIN
On 12/06/2014 09:44, Henning Schild wrote: It may be used, but that doesn't mean it's maintained, or robust >against abuse. My advice is to steer clear of it. Could you elaborate on why you advice against it? +1 elaborate please. beside the DPDK source code, some other common use cases: -

Re: Why I advise against using ivshmem

2014-06-12 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Markus, see inline (I am not on all mailing list, please, keep the cc list). > Sure! The reasons for my dislike range from practical to > philosophical. My practical concerns include: 1. ivshmem code needs work, but has no maintainer See David's contributions: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/

Re: [Qemu-devel] Why I advise against using ivshmem

2014-06-13 Thread Vincent JARDIN
(+merging with Paolo's email because of overlaps) see inline (I am not on all mailing list, please, keep the cc list). 1. ivshmem code needs work, but has no maintainer See David's contributions: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/358750/ We're grateful for David's patch for qemu-char.c

Re: [Qemu-devel] Why I advise against using ivshmem

2014-06-13 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Fine, however Red Hat would also need a way to test ivshmem code, with proper quality assurance (that also benefits upstream, of course). With ivshmem this is not possible without the out-of-tree packages. You did not reply to my question: how to get the list of things that are/will be disable

Re: [Qemu-devel] Why I advise against using ivshmem

2014-06-14 Thread Vincent JARDIN
(resending, this email is missing at http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/index.html) > Fine, however Red Hat would also need a way to test ivshmem code, with > proper quality assurance (that also benefits upstream, of course). > With ivshmem this is not possible without the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] docs: update ivshmem device spec

2014-06-26 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Hi Cam, FYI, David did implement a new server. http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg04978.html which is easier to maintain. Please, could you review his patch? He'll be back from holiday within 1 week. Best regards, Vincent PS: thanks for your comments -- To unsub

Re: High performance with Virtio - librte_pmd_virtio

2014-08-06 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Check on dev DPDK mailing list. It should help: http://dpdk.org/doc/virtio-net-pmd On 06/08/2014 16:47, Emerson Barea wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to use librte_pmd_virtio and I got success in the test indicated in README file. But now, I want to know how I create a vm using this dpdk tunned

Re: High performance with Virtio - librte_pmd_virtio

2014-08-06 Thread Vincent JARDIN
all virtio using this librte_pmd_virtio dpdk library. Somebody knows? 2014-08-06 11:56 GMT-03:00 Vincent JARDIN : Check on dev DPDK mailing list. It should help: http://dpdk.org/doc/virtio-net-pmd On 06/08/2014 16:47, Emerson Barea wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to use librte_pmd_virt

Re: Using virtio for inter-VM communication

2014-06-10 Thread Vincent JARDIN
On 10/06/2014 18:48, Henning Schild wrote:> Hi, > In a first prototype i implemented a ivshmem[2] device for the > hypervisor. That way we can share memory between virtual machines. > Ivshmem is nice and simple but does not seem to be used anymore. > And it > does not define higher level devices,