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From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: HVM network performance
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 13:56:16 -0500
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Steve Dobbelstein <steved@us.ibm.com> writes:
>   
>> I don't see any obvious problems in the Xenoprof output.  Anyone with
>> experience with the inner workings of HVM domains care to comment on what
>> might be causing the network performance to suffer so much?
>>     
>
> You'll never get good throughput either from a NE2000 nor from a pcnet32
> model.
>   
That was a suspicion of mine, but I wasn't sure.  I wonder if qemu-dm 
could emulate another adapter (if so, which one would be best?) or do we 
just punt and go for para-virt drivers.

-Andrew