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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [4341] qemu: generate signals on tap I/O
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:57:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481F90D4.6090507@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481F8F74.9010507@aurel32.net>

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> You're seeing improvement with normal QEMU?  Can you please post a
>>> description of what you're seeing improve with SIGIO.  SIGIO should
>>> really only slow things down.
>>>       
>> I haven't tried Anders' patch, but the patch I accidentally committed
>> improved the network speed (tap mode) by a huge factor (I haven't the
>> exact factor in mind anymore). I can now easily reach 170 MBps with an
>>     
>                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                   oops that is 170 Mbps
>   

If you explicitly call host_alarm_handler in tap_send(), do you see the 
same improvement?  Perhaps your host timer is just very slow?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>> e1000 card on the MIPS Malta target.
>>
>> That's why I use that patch in my local tree.
>>
>>     
>
>
>   

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 21:26 [Qemu-devel] [4341] qemu: generate signals on tap I/O Aurelien Jarno
2008-05-05 22:06 ` Anders
2008-05-05 22:15   ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-05-05 22:42     ` Anders
2008-05-05 22:44       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-05 22:49         ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-05-05 22:51           ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-05-05 22:57             ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-05-05 23:00               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-05 23:12         ` Anders
2008-05-06  2:48           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-06  8:35             ` Anders
2008-05-05 22:50       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-05 22:43 ` Anthony Liguori

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