From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Guerra Giraldez Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 emulation code Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:08:45 -0500 Message-ID: <200801092308.46482.javier@guerrag.com> References: <1199896975.4382.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1815779437==" Cc: ir Peleg , qemu-devel To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, dor.laor-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1199896975.4382.31.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org --===============1815779437== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote: > Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbp= s. very nice! in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance= =20 performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't= =20 include net or HD drivers for linux! i was surprised, but it simply said=20 that using e1000 emulation on 64bit linux was optimised enough. since i sa= w=20 good performance (no hard benchmarks, but definitely not bad); i thought th= at=20 they do some paravirtualizification at runtime as part of their software=20 recompiling (because they're much older than HVM-capable processors). now it seems that there are higher-level hardware that can be emulated far= =20 more efficiently than the original set of QEMU hardware. the next step would be to emulate LSI SCSI chips, eh? =2D-=20 Javier --nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHhZpOsIoGnxsRK/ERAniPAKCMll/AEmNRxACMG7dhim05AX2gxQCeLBYe PhhyMORu1UWM5pi4Cy0IJ/E= =q36g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe-- --===============1815779437== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace --===============1815779437== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel --===============1815779437==--