[OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

[John Barfield]

Btw I did go ahead and test both virtio methods...I gave a vm the -device argument on one interface and the -net argument for another the results where....

-device = eth0 = 952mbps
-net = eth1 = 199 mbps

Thanks and have a great day,

John Barfield

> On Mar 24, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Dominik Hassler <hasslerd at gmx.li> wrote:
>> 
>> Dan,
>> 
>>>> After further testing I achieved 952 MBytes on a VM-2-VM
>>>> connection...1
>>>> linux Ubuntu 12.04 vm to another CentOS 6.6 VM running on two
>>>> different SmartOS host machines (through an extreme networks switch).
>> 
>> if I got John correctly, he was running his second test on SmartOS hosts...
>> 
>> We did a lot of testing on OmniOS with -net vnic and -device
>> virtio-net-pci but sadly to no avail...
>> 
>> I think we have to hope that SmartOS kvm improvements will get
>> upstreamed sooner or later.
> 
> Ahh yes.
> 
> I was hoping to have them ready for 014, but it's a complicated process to upstream larger projects, and Joyent was in the middle of getting their new Triton release out the door.
> 
> Dan
>