Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend

From: David Vrabel
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 09:19:59 EST


On 04/03/15 14:09, Juergen Gross wrote:
>
> The main question whether it is worth to consider this alternative is
> the performance aspect. Does anyone have an idea which USB devices would
> typically be used via pvusb? I'd suspect memory sticks and USB disks
> and perhaps webcams being the most performance relevant ones. Is an
> additional copy operation of user data acceptable here?

I have no idea. We (XenServer) have no use cases at all for USB device
passthrough.

David
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