RE: [Xen-devel] theoretical network rx performance of Windows with PV drivers

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 18/11/08 12:02, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> > I'm finding some odd things during development of the GPLPV and am
> > wondering if I'm just expecting too much of a HVM Windows DomU.
> >
> > I'm using iperf for testing, and the most I can get on a 1.8GHz
AMD1210
> > out of a Dom0->DomU network performance is about 500MBits, and
that's
> > with Dom0 sending packets at close to 1GBit, with about 50% of
packets
> > being lost. But it's not consistent... things seem to stall at
strange
> > times (some of that may be a driver or a windows problem - the time
> > between scheduling a Dpc and the Dpc being executed is up to 3
seconds
> > sometimes when this happens...)
> >
> > How much overhead is introduced in the event channel -> HVM IRQ
path, as
> > compared to the normal interdomain event channels? I think that the
> > delay there might be bringing me down, but maybe I'm looking in the
> > wrong place?
> 
> I don't think evtchn->IRQ latency is particularly large. But also I
don't
> know what else might be causing your erratic behaviour.
> 

That's probably all I needed to know for now. I think it might actually
be Windows that's the problem...

Thanks

James

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