From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E3836B005C for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:41:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:44 +0200 References: <20090811212743.GA26309@redhat.com> <200908121452.01802.arnd@arndb.de> <20090812130612.GC29200@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090812130612.GC29200@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908121540.44928.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 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 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 <>< -- 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