linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus

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Message-ID: <20090817142310.GA3602@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:23:10 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
Cc:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for
	vbus_driver objects


* Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> I think the reason vbus gets better performance for networking today 
>>> is that vbus' backends are in the kernel while virtio's backends are 
>>> currently in userspace.  Since Michael has a functioning in-kernel 
>>> backend for virtio-net now, I suspect we're weeks (maybe days) away 
>>> from performance results.  My expectation is that vhost + virtio-net 
>>> will be as good as venet + vbus.  If that's the case, then I don't 
>>> see any reason to adopt vbus unless Greg things there are other 
>>> compelling features over virtio.
>>>     
>>
>> Keeping virtio's backend in user-space was rather stupid IMHO.
>
> I don't think it's quite so clear.

in such a narrow quote it's not so clear indeed - that's why i 
qualified it with:

>> Having the _option_ to piggyback to user-space (for flexibility, 
>> extensibility, etc.) is OK, but not having kernel acceleration is 
>> bad.

	Ingo
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