[Qemu-devel] high-level view of packet processing for virtio NIC?

[Chris Friesen]

Hi,

I'm looking for information on what the qemu architecture looks like for 
processing virtio network packets in a two-vCPU guest.

It looks like there's an IO thread doing a decent fraction of the work, 
separate from the vCPU threads--is that correct?  There's no disk 
involved in this case, purely network packet processing.

Chris