Re: [Xen-devel] RE: changeset 16405: Add e100 NIC support.

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:49:27PM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote:
> I did a rough compare between RTL8139 and E100 on XEN/IA64 linux guest, E100 
> get 30% faster than RTL8139.
> The purpose I wrote this driver is for windows network of XEN/IA64. I think 
> it still works in x86/x64 guest.
> Ok, I will post it to QEMU's mail list.
> 

I think VMware supports e1000 emulation too.. does that have any advantage
over e100? faster/gigabit? Worth implementing in Xen/QEMU?

-- Pasi

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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: 2007?11?21? 18:32
> >To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Zhang, Xing Z
> >Subject: changeset 16405: Add e100 NIC support.
> >
> >I see we've just added a completely new hardware driver to Xen's
> >QEMU...
> >
> >http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/ec
> >0bc82cebfd
> >
> >Please send this patch to upstream qemu-devel mailing list for
> >review
> >& inclusion so we don't have to carry this in Xen's QEMU
> >forever....
> >
> >The commit message suggests this is primarily for windows/ia64.
> >Does anyone
> >have any info though on how it compares to the current rtl8139
> >driver in
> >terms of throughput ? ie would it be worth using for Linux guests
> >too in
> >preference to rtl8139, or is it only useful for the windows/ia64
> >niche ?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Dan.
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