From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] e1000 emulation
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:57:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188143825.9457.1.camel@squirrel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D09C8E.3060101@monatomic.org>
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:18 +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone interested in a patch for an unstable, though working e1000
> emulation for
> QEMU? It is aimed for this chip-set version:
Yes! The e1000 has a lot of interesting features that should make it
emulation friendly.
> 0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller
>
> I originally created it very recently to provide a virtual NIC that
> supports Jumbo
> packets. Unfortunately it appears that the tun driver doesn't implement
> change_mtu() so it didn't integrate very well with qemu-kvm.
If it proves useful, then there's no reason the tun driver can't be
changed. Were you expecting to get a significant performance boost with
jumbo frames or was this just a functionality thing? The current
emulated nic performance is pretty bad...
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-26 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-25 21:18 [Qemu-devel] e1000 emulation Dan Aloni
2007-08-26 12:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Triggered
2007-09-01 19:51 ` Dan Aloni
2007-09-02 6:55 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2007-08-26 15:57 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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