On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:49:47PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:05:48 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:51:12PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > Any rough idea on performance? Better or worse than userspace? > > > > Well, I definitely see some gain in latency. > ... > > Part of it might be that tx mitigation does not come into play with vhost. I > > need to disable it in qemu and see. > > A simple test I've found reasonably indicative when looking at base > performance (before stuff like TSO get involved) is to do pings. Throughput > with "ping -s 1024 -l 120 -c 1000000 -f -q" and latency with "ping -c 1000000 > -f -q". > > (You may need to cut -l down if your ring is too small). > > Cheers, > Rusty.
OK, will try that. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
