Re: [Xen-users] dom0 using only a single CPU (networking)

["Ryan Burke" <burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:31:54PM +0100, fabi.a169@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I'm using a server with 10Gbps network interfaces and 4 CPUs, running
>> several domUs. The problem is that in this setup, with high network
>> load,
>> dom0 turns out to be the bottleneck, using only a single CPU which is
>> saturated and 100%. So the network speed is bounded to much less than
>> 10Gbps. How could I make dom0 use more CPUs in parallel ?
>
> In short, you can't. The Linux network stack uses polling to handle high
> load, however this can only run on one CPU at a time.
>
>> If you have any idea, thank you for sharing your experience.
>
> What sort of service do you run which can fill a 10GBit connection and
> is able to be virtualized at the same time?
>
> Bastian


I would be interested in knowing if the network backend is capable of
scaling with additional CPUs.

Ryan

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