On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:19:44AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 08:39:46AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Bill McGonigle wrote:
>
> > On 11/07/2010 03:55 PM, M A Young wrote:
> >> If the plan to get key
> >> xen drivers into 2.6.38 succeeds
> >
> > With the caveat that I don't really know what I'm looking for, I
didn't see
> > these make 2.6.38-rc1 (plenty of other Xen work, though). I saw a proposed
> > patch for netback hit xen-devel yesterday.
>
> There was talk of userland netback and blkback in xen 4.1 which use the
> gntdev interface which did make it into 2.6.38 (userland blkback
> apparently gives the similar performance as the kernel one, netback is
> not as good). I am not sure of the details though, nor how you might use
> them if they are available.
Xen folks worked to give QEMU a userland netback/blkback implementation,
but I don't believe this functionality is integrated into the mgmt stack
at this time, so likely not much use yet.
userspace blkback is included in xen-unstable (4.1) !
Afaik xen-unstable automatically 'falls back' to userspace blkback
if kernel blkback is not available.
I'm not sure if xen-unstable also has userspace netback..
-- Pasi