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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] qemu-kvm: vhost net support
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:11:38 +0300
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Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Well, I definitely see some gain in latency.
> Here's a simple test over a 1G ethernet link (host to guest):

> Native:
> 126976 126976 1        1       10.00    10393.23

> vhost virtio:
> 126976 126976 1        1       10.00    8169.58

> Userspace virtio:
> 126976 126976 1        1       10.00    2029.49

Hi Michael,

Can you provide udp stream numbers for small packets, so we can see the 
packets-per-second gain? e.g -- -m 22 which should account for 64 byte frames.

Or.