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From: Gerard Saraber <gsaraber-/tCmSuwdN3vQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Gigabit networking speeds
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:57:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190141820.12685.216.camel@ahr2> (raw)

Hi,
we were testing the network throughput with some simple wget tests,
grabbing a 112MB file off another machine, the host OS gets 46MB/sec
transferring that file, but the guest virtual ones only get 10-14MB/sec,
I'm using model=rtl8139 for the nic, and a tap via a bridge, I'm
wondering if I'm doing something wrong, is there another nic model I can
use to make it faster? or use a different method besides the network tap
+bridge thing? 
I tested two guests pulling the same file at the same time, both got
~10MB/sec, so it seems the host is up to it, but the guests are somehow
limited..
I saw some patches for an "IOQ" driver, should I be using a different
kernel tree?

I'm using kvm-40 and linux 2.6.23-rc6

-- 
Regards,
Gerard Saraber
Network Admin, Rarcoa, Inc.
(630) 654-2580 x199
gsaraber-/tCmSuwdN3vQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18 18:57 Gerard Saraber [this message]
2007-09-18 19:22 ` Gigabit networking speeds Anthony Liguori

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