[vbox-dev] [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel

[Frank Mehnert]

On Wednesday 08 May 2013 21:50:05 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2013 21:11:03 +0200
> 
> Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 May 2013 20:41:40 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > > Alexey, please ask yourself why noone answers questions about the
> > > networking... We _do_ comparison and I have not seen vbox with
> > > multi-cpu guest-to-guest reaching
> > > 
> > > [  5] local 192.168.4.83 port 5001 connected with 192.168.4.23 port
> > > 49808 [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec  5.47 GBytes  4.69 Gbits/sec
> > > 
> > > (vmware iperf example)
> > > 
> > > ... and I really like vbox.
> > 
> > Please don't give up. :) Bad performance with networking in SMP guests
> > is a known issue and there is work going on to fix several related bugs.
> > 
> > Frank
> 
> Hi Frank, nice to read you.
> 
> I did not read the corresponding code so far, but it sounds reasonable to
> me that using one queue per guest cpu with affinity should let it fly.

It's a bit more complicated :)

Frank
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