Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758565AbZIOUoL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:44:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755750AbZIOUoI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:44:08 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f172.google.com ([209.85.221.172]:41879 "EHLO mail-qy0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754643AbZIOUoF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:44:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=caC6byohbpT1GRHliABgpF4u1fzFR8N3/RsFxLb3i15tqphEe9XAHASIxbXWU2d/Xy 5WpaZsqPfhL1tpntG609f4pyeadPxVufaKDEYlLciWyhG4+Bs0MObOfbGoXqCw/1U1Y4 yJD8tjhMIWF9ENL0kZ9+GNtuFqeMLaLxF4TbM= Message-ID: <4AAFFC8E.9010404@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:43:58 -0400 From: Gregory Haskins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" CC: Avi Kivity , "Ira W. Snyder" , 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, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, Rusty Russell , s.hetze@linux-ag.com, alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server References: <20090913120140.GA31218@redhat.com> <4AAE6A97.7090808@gmail.com> <20090914164750.GB3745@redhat.com> <4AAE961B.6020509@gmail.com> <4AAF8A03.5020806@redhat.com> <4AAF909F.9080306@gmail.com> <4AAF95D1.1080600@redhat.com> <4AAF9BAF.3030109@gmail.com> <4AAFACB5.9050808@redhat.com> <4AAFF437.7060100@gmail.com> <20090915204036.GA27954@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090915204036.GA27954@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig24896E66E3C399935D536D3E" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1786 Lines: 52 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig24896E66E3C399935D536D3E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:08:23PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> No, what I mean is how do you surface multiple ethernet and consoles t= o >> the guests? For Ira's case, I think he needs at minimum at least one = of >> each, and he mentioned possibly having two unique ethernets at one poi= nt. >> >> His slave boards surface themselves as PCI devices to the x86 >> host. So how do you use that to make multiple vhost-based devices (sa= y >> two virtio-nets, and a virtio-console) communicate across the transpor= t? >> >> There are multiple ways to do this, but what I am saying is that >> whatever is conceived will start to look eerily like a vbus-connector,= >> since this is one of its primary purposes ;) >=20 > Can't all this be in userspace? Can you outline your proposal? -Greg --------------enig24896E66E3C399935D536D3E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqv/I4ACgkQP5K2CMvXmqFXNgCeITGEZIQyY1AzJ7od1rh0LGyp QJcAnAuw/OPdj+0i1gYeklbBHida5NMq =Fiqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig24896E66E3C399935D536D3E-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/