Subject: [announce] KVM/NET, paravirtual network device
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel
Date: 2007-01-11 00:10:11 GMT (1 year, 51 weeks, 5 days, 2 hours and 43 minutes ago)
here's a quick update wrt. the KVM paravirtualization work: i'm currently working on KVM/NET, which is a Linux<->Linux virtual network device driver between the KVM host and the KVM guest. It uses the new KVM-paravirtualization infrastructure that i've sent to this list yesterday. while the code is still a prototype, it's working already and here are some early TCP bandwidth (bw_tcp from guest to host) performance results which i'm sure you'll enjoy: ----------------------------------------------------------- | Native via loopback (mtu=1500) : 235.57 MB/sec | | Native via loopback (mtu=4000) : 487.12 MB/sec | ----------------------------------------------------------- | Qemu via RTL-8029 emulation : 2.84 MB/sec | | KVM via RTL-8029 emulation : 7.41 MB/sec | ----------------------------------------------------------- | KVM-para via KVM/NET device (mtu=1500) : 303.35 MB/sec | | KVM-para via KVM/NET device (mtu=4000) : 389.47 MB/sec | ----------------------------------------------------------- Ingo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV