[Qemu-devel] Re: Networking patches queue

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> I've re-based the queue and pulled in Alex's rx filtering patches.
>
> I've tested the tree as follows:
>
>   - Mostly just with --enable-kvm
>
>   - F-11 host and guest
>
>   - Basic functional testing (dhcp, ping, ssh, scp) with tap, slirp, 
>     virtio-net and e1000
>
>   - Some quick host<->guest netperf benchmarks (results in Mb/s):
>
>                     | TCP TX | UDP TX | TCP RX | UDP RX
>       --------------+--------+--------+--------+-------
>       virtio before |  386   |  1545  |   190  |  410 
>              after  |  760   |  1540  |  1100  |  860*
>       e1000  before |  220   |   155  |    88  |  160
>              after  |  400   |   165  |  1255  |  180*
>
>       * - these UDP RX results show the received figures; the sent
>           figures are much higher since the host is sending so fast
>           it is overflowing the socket buffers in the guest
>
>   - Pushed it through a basic kvm-autotest run, to see if e.g. the 
>     SIGCHLD handler had side-effects not thrown up by networking tests
>
>   - Confirmed that invalid parameter and hotplug errors are working as 
>     expected after Jan's changes
>
>   - Basic testing of slirp redirs
>
>   - Basic testing of promisc, allmuti, mac table filtering etc. - Alex 
>     clearly has tested this in more detail, though
>
>   - Attempted to test old->new virtio-net migrations (given the 
>     version_id bumps), but virtio migration is still broken on HEAD
>
> Pull request below.
>   

Pulled.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori