Comment 3 for bug 1475078
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| Thiago Martins (martinx) wrote Re: VirtIO is built-in, make it modular... | #3 |
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Just for the record, I would give an use case example...
For high performance virtualized environments, we're seeing new solutions popping out in the market, for example:
* Netmap / VALE (mSwitch).
But, since Ubuntu ships VirtIO as a buil-in module, It is not possible to use/evaluate Netmap (VirtIO version) with it.
This is a show stopping for Ubuntu in a high performance virt-env... While Debian is fine.
Ubuntu Kernel Team should definitively make its "linux-image" more modular, there is no doubt about this.
OpenStack for Telcos (NFV subject) will definitively need Netmap / VALE, or DPDK, for example... So, Ubuntu should not do things that breaks future development of high speed virtual environments.
Think forward, Linux is modular. No need to compile modules as built-in.
Just my two Bitcents...
:-)