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Re: [Xen-users] Networking with xen

To: "Quezada, Pedro" <PedroQ@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Networking with xen
From: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:56:00 -0500
Cc: Luke S Crawford <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>, Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Quezada, Pedro <PedroQ@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I doubt that performance will improve ..until there is a NIC specifically
> made for virtual switches..
> or a sub network piece of equipment that networking part handled in hardware
> everything is handled in software in these instances ...higher throughput
> will tax the server...

virtio drivers are getting huge performance benefits on KVM and other
QEMU/derived systems.  it's only a matter of time until Xen's fork of
QEMU is benefited too.



-- 
Javier

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