[OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] kvm network performance survey

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Nigel,

Yesterday Nigel W wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the past few months I have been struggling with bad KVM nework
> > performance on omnios R12 and R14.  Especially under
> > bidirectional load things are looking terrible (factor 1000).
> >
> > Every now and then there is a report on the mailinglist about such
> > problems, but we have not yet seen anything really helpful.
> >
> > In my tests I have been using iperf to collect streaming tcp
> > network performance on verious configurations.
> >
> > I realy want to see this solved. As an initial effort, I have setup
> > a google spreadsheet to collect performance data. The sheet
> > includes instructions on how to test and lets you record your test
> > results:
> >
> >   http://goo.gl/Vr1tC6
> >
> > Please add your test results, or even better, figure out what is going
> > wrong!
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> Is this measurement between the kvm guest and the host or the kvm guest
> and another (presumably native) host on the network?


the measurement is between the  kvm guest and the host where kvm is
running on.

cheers
tobi

>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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