Subject: Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

From: Chris Wright <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:22:21 -0800

* Peter W. Morreale ([email-masked]) wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 13:14 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/summit/cwright_11_open_source_virt.pdf
> > >
> > > See slide 32.  This is without vhost-net.
> > 
> > Thanks. Do you also have latency numbers?
> > 
> > It seems like there's definitely still potential for improvement
> > with messages <4K. But for the large messages they indeed 
> > look rather good.
> > 
> > It's unclear what message size the Alacrity numbers used, but I presume
> > it was rather large.
> 
> No.  It was 1500.  Please see: 
> 
> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/AlacrityVM/Results

That's just MTU.  Not the message size.  We can infer the message size by
the bare metal results (reasonably large), but is helpful to record that.

thanks,
-chris