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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Virtio network performance poorer than emulated e1000
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:26:36 +0200
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On 07/24/10 17:04, Balachandar wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> wrote:
> Actually i got better results when i downloaded qemu-kvm 0.12.4 from
> sourceforge and ran it. Now virtio performs better than emaulated
> e1000 with our own simple ping-pong latency tests. Previously i used
> Debian squeeze kvm package and i got poor results for virtio. I used
> vhost-net as described by the kvm
> website.http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VhostNet. This also seem to have
> the same problems i faced with Debian kvm package. How are you guyz
> using vhost? Is there any other way to use vhost?

Ok thats good to hear. Sounds like the Debian package might be dodgy, or
they just happened to snapshot at a bad time.

For vhost I am not the expert, maybe someone else knows.

Jes