From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hpa@zytor.com, Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:42:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090812134247.GA29340@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:40:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > If I understand it correctly, you can at least connect a veth pair
> > > to a bridge, right? Something like
> > >
> > > veth0 - veth1 - vhost - guest 1
> > > eth0 - br0-|
> > > veth2 - veth3 - vhost - guest 2
> > >
> > Heh, you don't need a bridge in this picture:
> >
> > guest 1 - vhost - veth0 - veth1 - vhost guest 2
>
> Sure, but the setup I described is the one that I would expect
> to see in practice because it gives you external connectivity.
>
> Measuring two guests communicating over a veth pair is
> interesting for finding the bottlenecks, but of little
> practical relevance.
>
> Arnd <><
Oh, hopefully macvlan will soon allow that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 21:27 Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-11 23:49 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-12 7:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-12 11:56 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-12 12:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-12 12:41 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-12 12:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-12 13:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-12 13:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-12 13:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-08-12 13:51 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-12 14:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-12 16:13 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-12 16:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-12 13:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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