[Gluster-devel] VFIO support

Rayson Ho raysonlogin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 20:53:05 UTC 2012


Just wondering if GlusterFS developers are already working on VFIO support??

http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/open-mpi-over-linux-vfio/

http://lwn.net/Articles/474088/

With VFIO, normal Ethernet NICs can also perform OS-bypass - KVM/QEMU
is adding support for it, and Cisco found that VFIO is useful in HPC
environments and thus prototyped an Open MPI implementation that uses
VFIO.

Rayson

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