> -Original Message-
> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:a...@arndb.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:16 AM
> To: virtualizat...@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Cc: Leonid Grossman; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: Guest bridge setup variations
>
> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Leon
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> Of
> > Arnd Bergmann
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> > Cc: qemu-deve
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Leonid Grossman wrote:
> > > 3. Doing the bridging in the NIC using macvlan in passthrough
> > > mode. This lowers the CPU utilization further compared to 2,
> > > at the expense of limiting throughput by the performance of
> > > the PCIe interconnect to the adapter.
On 10.12.2009, at 21:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 10 December 2009 19:14:28 Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> This is something I also have been thinking about, but it is not what
>>> I was referring to above. I think it would be good to keep the three
>>> cases (macvlan, VMDq, SR-IOV) as simil
On Thursday 10 December 2009 19:14:28 Alexander Graf wrote:
> > This is something I also have been thinking about, but it is not what
> > I was referring to above. I think it would be good to keep the three
> > cases (macvlan, VMDq, SR-IOV) as similar as possible from the user
> > perspective, so u
On 10.12.2009, at 15:18, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 10 December 2009, Fischer, Anna wrote:
>>>
>>> 3. Doing the bridging in the NIC using macvlan in passthrough
>>> mode. This lowers the CPU utilization further compared to 2,
>>> at the expense of limiting throughput by the performance o
> Subject: Guest bridge setup variations
>
> As promised, here is my small writeup on which setups I feel
> are important in the long run for server-type guests. This
> does not cover -net user, which is really for desktop kinds
> of applications where you do not want to connect into the
> guest f
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Fischer, Anna wrote:
> >
> > 3. Doing the bridging in the NIC using macvlan in passthrough
> > mode. This lowers the CPU utilization further compared to 2,
> > at the expense of limiting throughput by the performance of
> > the PCIe interconnect to the adapter. Whethe
