Host kernel accelerator for virtio net

modulename: vhost_net.ko

configname: CONFIG_VHOST_NET

Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Virtualization
└─>Host kernel accelerator for virtio net
In linux kernel since version 3.1 (release Date: 2011-10-24)  
This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
guest networking with virtio_net. Not to be confused with virtio_net
module itself which needs to be loaded in guest kernel.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called vhost_net.

source code:
selects
CONFIG_VHOST

depends
CONFIG_EVENTFD
CONFIG_NET
CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION