From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40260 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oqnmr-0006FJ-Ir for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqnmq-0004vb-71 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqnmp-0004vT-T6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4C7E5B15.9030406@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:29 +0200 From: Jes Sorensen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 10Gb Ethernet Adapters (with TOE ) port References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Onkar Mahajan Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On 08/18/10 08:12, Onkar Mahajan wrote: > Is there any benefit gained by porting 10Gb Ethernet adapters to > Qemu/KVM ? The question may be naive. Please forgive me if this doesn't > make any sense. Creating a new QEMU driver to mimic one of the 10Gbit adapters is probably a waste of time, you should be able to get the speed by using virtio. Alternatively you can use SRIOV to get direct access to the 10Gbit adapter in the guest if you want. Jes