From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCoi0-0004cp-0b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:08:00 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCohx-0004aL-C1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:07:57 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCohx-0004aB-5c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:07:57 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.247]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCohw-0008OE-R6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:07:56 -0500 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b38so142247ana.130 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:07:54 -0800 (PST) From: Javier Guerra Giraldez Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:08:45 -0500 References: <1199896975.4382.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1199896975.4382.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801092308.46482.javier@guerrag.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] e1000 emulation code Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, dor.laor@qumranet.com Cc: ir Peleg , qemu-devel --nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote: > Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbp= s. very nice! in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance= =20 performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't= =20 include net or HD drivers for linux! i was surprised, but it simply said=20 that using e1000 emulation on 64bit linux was optimised enough. since i sa= w=20 good performance (no hard benchmarks, but definitely not bad); i thought th= at=20 they do some paravirtualizification at runtime as part of their software=20 recompiling (because they're much older than HVM-capable processors). now it seems that there are higher-level hardware that can be emulated far= =20 more efficiently than the original set of QEMU hardware. the next step would be to emulate LSI SCSI chips, eh? =2D-=20 Javier --nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHhZpOsIoGnxsRK/ERAniPAKCMll/AEmNRxACMG7dhim05AX2gxQCeLBYe PhhyMORu1UWM5pi4Cy0IJ/E= =q36g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1982583.HFR4bnVFfe--