This talk will present a high level description of current work on virtio, vhost - in general with focus on paravirtualized networking in particular.
The talk will start with a quick overview of a paravirtualized networking in KVM. It will next describe new enhancements in this field developed in the last year, most of them performance-related.

The talk will include a description of upcoming challenges in enhancing paravirtualized
networking in KVM.

For a selected subset of the enhancements the talk will include some background and motivation, an architecture-level view of the implementation
and a short description of the benefits to the user.

The talk is targeted at developers with high level understanding of KVM and networking, and interest in their internals.