On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:14:44PM +0000, Jorgen S. Hansen wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > All datagram communication in VMCI based AF_VSOCK is going through the host - > also for loopback communication. The only difference wrt loopback is that the > VMCI queue pairs implementing the shared queues for the stream protocols > aren't registered with the hypervisor - they are created specifying the > VMCI_QPFLAG_LOCAL flag, and exist only as local guest memory. > > So in the current form, there isn't much loopback code in the vmci AF_VSOCK > implementation, so it doesn't seem like there would be much to share either.
Thanks for clarifying. I'm playing with a virtio-vsock implementation of loopback and expect send patches later this week. Stefan
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