Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Anthony Liguori > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:20:12AM -0800, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Luigi Rizzo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:20:12AM -0800, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Luigi Rizzo > wrote: > > ... > >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:20:12AM -0800, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > ... >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione >> >> wrote: >> >> > This patch adds support for a network

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:20:12AM -0800, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione > >> wrote: > >> > This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. > >> > netmap is a framework for hig

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/29/2013 04:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione wrote: > This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. > netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it > to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software > switches or network middleboxes. Its companion softw

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Anthony Liguori > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione >> wrote: >> > This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. >> > netmap is a framework for high speed pa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione > wrote: > > This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. > > netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it > > to build extremely fast traffic generator

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione wrote: > This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. > netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it > to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software > switches or network middleboxes. Its compa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-11-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:12:25AM +0100, Vincenzo Maffione wrote: Looks pretty good, I think we can merge the next revision. > This patch only contains the simplest netmap backend for QEMU. > In particular, this backend implementation is still not > able to make use of batching on the TX side (f

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend

2013-10-29 Thread Vincenzo Maffione
This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines. n