Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

[Herbert Xu]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> As you point out, 350-450 is possible, which is still bad, and it's at least
> partially caused by the exit to userspace and two system calls.  If virtio_net
> had a backend in the kernel, we'd be able to compare numbers properly.

FWIW I don't really care whether we go with this or a kernel
virtio_net backend.  Either way should be good.  However the
status quo where we're stuck with a user-space backend really
sucks!

Thanks,
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