[Lxc-users] VALE as networking option in LXC

[Zhu Yanhai]

2013/4/12 Natale Patriciello <natale.patriciello at gmail.com>

> Hi list,
>
> someone looked into the possibility to add VALE [1] as networking option ?
>
> VALE is a software Virtual Local Ethernet whose ports are accessible using
> the netmap API [2], designed to be used as the interconnect between virtual
> machines (or as a fast local bus), working as a learning bridge.
>
> A major benefit would be high packet rate (~ 5 Mpps over two qemu machine;
> I think could be much more with lxc)
>
> Thank you (please CC me in replies as I'm not subscribed to the list).
>
> [1] http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/
> [2] http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap
>
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I think the 'tcp friends' feature in the latest upstream kernel can do the
same thing with it. See http://lwn.net/Articles/511254/.

-zyh
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