Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

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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