netdev - Re: [RFCv2 00/12] Introduce host-side virtio queue and CAIF Virtio.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <87sj681wou.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:18:33 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFCv2 00/12] Introduce host-side virtio queue and CAIF Virtio.

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:00:55PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Not sure why vhost/net doesn't built a packet and feed it in
>> netif_rx_ni().  This is what tun seems to do, and with this code it
>> should be fairly optimal.
>
> Because we want to use NAPI.

Not quite what I was asking; it was more a question of why we're using a
raw socket, when we trivially have a complete skb already which we
should be able to feed to Linux like any network packet.

And that path is pretty well optimized...

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html