Re: Network performance with small packets - continued

2011-03-08 Thread Chigurupati, Chaks
Hi Tom, My two cents. Please look for [Chaks] snip Comparing the transmit path to the receive path, the guest disables notifications after the first kick and vhost re-enables notifications after completing processing of the tx ring. Can a similar thing be done for the receive path? Once vhost

Moving of mmap'ed files from one guest into another guest

2011-03-03 Thread Chigurupati, Chaks
Hi folks, Any comments/insight on the following problem statement will be appreciated. Host and the guests are running the same linux distro and a recent kernel (say 2.6.34 and later). The applications on guest 1 are creating several mmap'ed files that dynamically grow and shrink. The

Re: Is PCI pass-through possible with host+kvm on latest linux but guest on an older linux?

2011-02-23 Thread Chigurupati, Chaks
Thanks Chris. On 2/23/11 10:30 AM, Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org wrote: * Chigurupati, Chaks (ch...@wichorus.com) wrote: If my hardware is VT-d capable and the host is latest linux+kvm with all the needed VT-d support but the guest is an older linux (say 2.6.27), will I be able to use PCI

Is PCI pass-through possible with host+kvm on latest linux but guest on an older linux?

2011-02-22 Thread Chigurupati, Chaks
Hi folks, If my hardware is VT-d capable and the host is latest linux+kvm with all the needed VT-d support but the guest is an older linux (say 2.6.27), will I be able to use PCI pass-through to hot-plug a PCI device from one guest to another guest? Any comments/thoughts are appreciated. Thx