Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 8 authors, 2011-11-22

Re: [RFC] kvm tools: Implement multiple VQ for virtio-net

From: Rusty Russell <hidden>
Date: 2011-11-16 00:04:42
Also in: kvm, virtualization

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:05:07 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:25:17PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
quoted
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Asias He [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Why both the bandwidth and latency performance are dropping so dramatically
with multiple VQ?
What's the expected benefit from multiple VQs
Heh, the original patchset didn't mention this :) It really should.
They are supposed to speed up networking for high smp guests.
If we have one queue per guest CPU, does this allow us to run lockless?

Thanks,
Rusty.
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