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

From: Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:17:28 -0500

On 12/23/09 12:52 PM, Peter W. Morreale 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
> 

Note: 1500 was the L2 MTU, not necessarily the L3/L4 size which was
probably much larger (though I do not recall what exactly atm).

-Greg