[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Xen-devel] what's maximum speed setting for xen network?


  • To: Xin Zhao <zhaoxin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:09:45 -0700
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:10:10 +0000
  • Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MhmeqaakF7jSgqWkMWsGoaBn6CquqSzzvgPJOPv1vWpVEWDcOhXDMujnyGQilkS+EZyCQnkNMrDcdLM/sh+WEOhfyvbo9B1ac3VxrQODTw6jMFoJqYb5/gRcMJJSBabvk6ZPWEdkdvqGMjuhnx1uXIy+t436jE8GStSw3/XneCk=
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

Machine local networking is something that is currently not handled
well by xen. One ends up context switching for every packet sent. I
believe this is on the TODO list.

                                    -Kip 

On 4/20/05, Xin Zhao <zhaoxin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For a physical network card, it has a maximum transmission speed such as
> 100Mb. How about network in a virtual machine? It is a virtual network
> card. Is there any speed limit? Or it can transmit as fast as possible? If
> so, I guess network transmission happened within a physical host should be
> very fast (great than 100Mb). But this is not true in my experiment.
> What's the bottleneck then?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your advice.
> 
> Xin
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel


 


Rackspace

Lists.xenproject.org is hosted with RackSpace, monitoring our
servers 24x7x365 and backed by RackSpace's Fanatical Support®.