Re: [Xen-devel] Re: HVM network performance

[Randy Thelen <rthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Dobbelstein

> or do we just punt and go for para-virt drivers.
Andi Kleen wrote:

> That's the easy and probably fastest way short term, but long term
> it's a lot more work (you will need to write drivers for all the  
> old and new guest OS
> you want to run to get good performance)
Yes, but given a good back-end driver model, these should be  
relatively simple.  Especially if a couple examples were BSD licensed  
to kick start the development of these drivers.
> Also it's a logistical problem because you'll need to distribute  
> and setup
> all these drivers even if they are written.
I would think the performance benefit would greatly outweigh the  
setup issues.  But, what do you mean by 'distribute and setup'?
-- Randy Thelen
Network Appliance

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