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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Network performance with small packets
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:49:47 +0200
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:33:49PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 23:14 -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > w/i guest change, I played around the parameters,for example: I could
> > get 3.7Gb/s with 42% CPU BW increasing from 2.5Gb/s for 1K message
> > size,
> > w/i dropping packet, I was able to get up to 6.2Gb/s with similar CPU
> > usage. 
> 
> I meant w/o guest change, only vhost changes. Sorry about that.
> 
> Shirley

Ah, excellent. What were the parameters?

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