Vhost-net support for KVM

[bert64]

Hi,

I read today about the vhost-net project, which aims to decrease latency and improve throughput for the virtio drivers... It consists of a kernel patch (which is now integrated in the recently released 2.6.34 kernel) and a patch to kvm...

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VhostNet

Is this something worth considering for inclusion into future proxmox versions? I believe aside from the patched kernel and kvm, proxmox would also need updating to call kvm with the appropriate syntax to use the vhost-net support...

 

[tom]

yes, as always newest kernel makes big sense for KVM and we closely follow all these newest stuff. its not just vhost-net, there are a lot of other exiting technologies which makes us happy being part of the open-source community.