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From: Alexander Charbonnet <alexander@charbonnet.com>
Subject: Re: x86-64 Net Performance
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 20:52:45 -0500
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> You might want to try this test without starting xend, so the network
> bridge is not created and eth0 is put on it.  Perhaps that is an issue.
> Come to think of it, my tests were not with veth0/vif0.0 -that may
> indeed be an issue, going through the front/back-end virtual interfaces,
> then on the bridge, then on eth0.  I'll kick off some tests tomorrow and
> see what I get.

xend was never started.  All I did was boot with the Domain0 kernel.  No 
bridges; I'm talking straight to eth0.

That answers Nicholas's question, too; I haven't done anything besides Domain0 
talking to itself.

Alex