From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Balachandar <bala1486@gmail.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtio network performance poorer than emulated e1000
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:11:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C49409B.5000505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimS6XVWgxJS0YIJfnQOy_f0-WRExbdkkyMyGMJ1@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/23/10 03:31, Balachandar wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Sridhar Samudrala
> I tried this one also but not much improvement. Actually i get a some
> improvement if i disabled the tx timeout timer in the virtio_net.h in
> qemu-kvm. I read that with vhost the data flow path differs from
> normal operation. So is the timeout applicable when we use vhost
> also? Actually i dont see any improvement with vhost. I am just
> wondering what am i missing? The thing that worries me is that
> emulated nic offers much greater performance than virtio with vhost.
> So i feel i am doing something wrong but unable to find it.
Could you try measuring something meaningful instead of ping please?
netperf or some other benchmark?
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 23:53 Virtio network performance poorer than emulated e1000 Balachandar
2010-07-23 0:18 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-23 1:31 ` Balachandar
2010-07-23 7:11 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2010-07-24 15:04 ` Balachandar
2010-07-26 8:26 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-07-26 13:44 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-07-26 14:39 ` Balachandar
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2010-07-22 20:13 Balachandar
2010-07-22 21:28 ` Freddie Cash
2010-07-23 13:37 ` Sebastian Hetze
[not found] ` <20100723133731.32ED2B0016@mail.linux-ag.de>
2010-07-23 14:47 ` Balachandar
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