RFE: vhost net backport in fc13

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Mon Jan 18 15:27:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:06:13PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> All,
> What is needed to backport vhost net accelerator to make it
> avaiable in fc13? The following patches from net-next
> (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git)
> should apply to fedora kernel without changes, and are fairly non-intrusive:
> 
> 05c2828c72c4eabf62376adfe27bd24797621f62 tun: export underlying socket
> 5da779c34ccff5e1e617892b6c8bd8260fb1f04c mm: export use_mm/unuse_mm to modules
> 3a4d5c94e959359ece6d6b55045c3f046677f55c vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
> 
> This module is required for vhost net feature. Feature page here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VHostNet
> 

Looks harmless to everyone else, so I've pushed this to CVS. It'll be in
the next build, let me know if there are any problems.

regards, Kyle


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