netdev - Re: XDP offload to hypervisor

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Message-ID: <286d054e-70bf-e0ca-8db6-f2f3ec12d963@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:03:46 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: XDP offload to hypervisor



On 2017年01月24日 09:02, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> Frankly I don't understand the whole virtio nit picking that was happening.
> imo virtio+xdp by itself is only useful for debugging, development and testing
> of xdp programs in a VM. The discussion about performance of virtio+xdp
> will only be meaningful when corresponding host part is done.

Maybe not, consider you may have dpdk backend on host.

Thanks