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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Implement virtio network device
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:51:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA58E35.5010801@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302695328-3503-1-git-send-email-asias.hejun@gmail.com>

On 4/13/11 2:48 PM, Asias He wrote:
> This patch implement virtio network device.
> Use '-n virtio or --network=virtio' to enable it.
>
> The current implementation uses tap which needs root privileges to create a
> virtual network device (tap0) on host side. Actually, what we need is
> CAP_NET_ADMIN.
>
> The host side tap0 is set to 192.168.33.2/24.
> You need to configure the guest side eth0 to any ip address in
> 192.168.33.0/24.
>
> Here are some scp performance test for differenct implementations:
> None of rx and tx as thread:
> guest to host 3.2MB/s
> host  to guest 3.1MB/s
>
> Only rx as thread:
> guest to host  14.7MB/s
> host  to guest 33.4MB/s
>
> Both rx and tx as thread(This patch works this way):
> guest to host  19.8MB/s
> host  to guest 32.5MB/s
>
> Signed-off-by: Asias He<asias.hejun@gmail.com>

This is already in master. Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-13 11:48 [PATCH] kvm tools: Implement virtio network device Asias He
2011-04-13 11:51 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-04-13 12:00   ` Asias He
2011-04-13 13:02     ` [transparent networking] " Ingo Molnar
2011-04-13 13:33       ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-13 13:38         ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-13 13:39         ` Asias He
2011-04-13 16:21       ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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