From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Sassan Panahinejad <sassan@sassan.me.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] idea: non-ethernet paravirtual network device
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:04:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSP0QWQrrRV71sTb3LBq4xj5XyaLFShW4Dn1Rcbn4gzJquimA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAz8cFi9d615Z8=ximh5c5vfQTaFDTFpp5SU0R2kn+8jKDcSGQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sassan Panahinejad <sassan@sassan.me.uk> wrote:
> Here's a thought, could we improve network performance by creating a
> paravirtual network device which doesn't emulate ethernet? It shouldn't be
> too hard to just whack IP packets pretty much directly over a virtio link.
> This should improve performance when using a "user" host connection and we
> could introduce a tun host connection instead of tap for this setup.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how worthwhile this would be? Would the
> performance improvement justify the effort involved?
My guess is no noticable impact (if you ignore ARP requests).
The Ethernet header is only 14 bytes or so. We don't calculate any
checksums at that level. There's probably not much of a win.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-26 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 15:53 [Qemu-devel] idea: non-ethernet paravirtual network device Sassan Panahinejad
2011-07-26 6:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2011-07-26 10:23 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-26 14:20 ` Sassan Panahinejad
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