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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] macvtap: TX zero copy between guest and host
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:33:14 -0700
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Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 10:28 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I think you should try testing with guest to external communication,
> this will uncover some of these correctness issues for you.
> I think netperf also has some flag to check data, might
> be a good idea to use it for testing.

I always tested guest to remote host, remote host to guest. What other
external communication do you suggest here?

Thanks
Shirley