From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D58C6B005A for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:44:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:42:47 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server Message-ID: <20090812134247.GA29340@redhat.com> References: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> <200908121452.01802.arnd@arndb.de> <20090812130612.GC29200@redhat.com> <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Gregory Haskins , 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 , hpa@zytor.com, Patrick Mullaney List-ID: 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. -- MST -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org