Leonid Grossman wrote:
But my point was that while virtualization capabilities of upcoming NICs
may be not even relevant to Linux, the multi-channel hw designs (a side
effect of virtualization push, if you will) will be there and a
non-virtualized stack can take advantage of them.
I'm looking at the current hardware virtualization efforts, and often
grimacing. A lot of these efforts assume that "virtual PCI devices"
will be wonderful virtualization solutions, without stopping to think
about global events that affect all such devices, such as silicon resets
or errata workarounds. In the real world, you wind up having to
un-virtualize to deal with certain exceptional events.
But as you point out, these hardware virt efforts can bestow benefits on
non-virtualized stacks.
Jeff
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