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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
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On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> At any rate, I'd like to see performance results before we consider 
> trying to reuse virtio code.

Yes, I agree. I'd also like to do more work on the macvlan extensions
to see if it works out without involving a socket. Passing the socket
into the vhost_net device is a nice feature of the current implementation
that we'd have to give up for something else (e.g. making the vhost
a real network interface that you can hook up to a bridge) if it were
to use virtio.

Unless I can come up with a solution that is clearly superior, I'm
taking back my objections on that part for now.

	Arnd <><