Bugs item #2834538, was opened at 2009-08-09 17:23
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Andreas Unterkircher (unki)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: low network speed with Windows virtio NIC drivers

Initial Comment:
Host-CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5420 (Quad cores)
Host: KVM 85
Host: 64-bit
Guest: Windows XP (SP3) and Windows 2003 (SP2)

We are powering several guests on a KVM host. All of them using TAP interfaces 
bridged together via one bridge. Within the guests we installed the lasted 
virtio NIC drivers (from that ISO file). While the Interface status show that 
the interfaces are set to 1Gbit/s, the maximum bandwidth we can achieve is 
about 100-120Mbit/s (tested with iperf). Funilly, one the same host, two Debian 
Lenny guests (so using 2.6.26 with builtin virtio modules) can achieve the full 
bandwidth of 1Gbit/s and more without a problem.

So we suspect that the Windows virtio drivers for the NICs are causing this 
problem.

How can we track down that problem? Can we provide more infos? We are willing 
to help in debuggig!

Thx,
Andreas

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