VDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU

Re:VDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU by jm1337 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:17AM (#39355644)

RH has a blog series which motivates and introduces vDPA.

For a start, read their post on virtio-networking and vhost-net [0], continue with virtio-networking and DPDK [1] and finally read "Achieving network wirespeed in an open standard manner: introducing vDPA" [2].

In particular the last link has a lot of diagrams, recaps a lot of the virtio-networking topics and finally has a table which compares the other solutions to vDPA.

[0] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-virtio-networkin... [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-vhost-user-came-being-vir... [2] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/achieving-network-wirespeed-o...

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Re:VDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU by yencabulator on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:44PM (#39375058)

That seems to talk about networking only, while the blog post talks about storage. For networking I get it, there's no vendor-independent data path standard for easy virtualization there. But for storage, NVMe is supposed to be that.

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