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The nice property of this design is that we can start with independent bits and pieces and keen keep an eye on performance. For example, without writing any additional code we can send NVMe traffic via TCP from our guests to the host helping us test assumptions about scalability . This (of course, this is expected to be much slower than virtio/vhost implementation, but is available in a stock kernel today).
It must also be notesnoted, that while experimenting with vhost and SPDK a few EVE PRs that can be re-used were generated and will be repurposed for this work.
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