WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.9 of GPL PV drivers for Windows

To: <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.9 of GPL PV drivers for Windows
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:29:01 +1000
Delivery-date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:29:09 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: Acin/aC6R9qisoFNTdqKsP/X5gHBaQ==
Thread-topic: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.9 of GPL PV drivers for Windows
The problem isn't so much page usage as grant table usage. There is a finite 
limit and it was being reached too quickly, eg with more than a few network 
interfaces loaded.

-----Original Message-----
From: "jim burns"<jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27/04/08 1:22:53 AM
To: "xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.9 of GPL PV drivers for Windows

On Saturday April 26 2008 02:49:59 am James Harper wrote:
> I did have a test performance of 2.5Gbits/second, but now that I have to
> copy the windows buffers into my own buffers to reduce page usage, I
> seem to only be able to get about 1.5Gbits/second out of it... This kind
> of makes sense given that DomU to Dom0 network performance is going to
> be CPU and Memory bandwidth bound.

What was the downside of the higher page usage?

Looking forward to testing it (or at least loading it :-).

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>