Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] e1000 emulation code

[Javier G. G. <ja...@gu...>]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote:
> Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbp=
s.

very nice!

in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance=
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performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't=
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include net or HD drivers for linux!  i was surprised, but it simply said=20
that using e1000 emulation on 64bit linux was optimised enough.  since i sa=
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good performance (no hard benchmarks, but definitely not bad); i thought th=
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they do some paravirtualizification at runtime as part of their software=20
recompiling (because they're much older than HVM-capable processors).

now it seems that there are higher-level hardware that can be emulated far=
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more efficiently than the original set of QEMU hardware.

the next step would be to emulate LSI SCSI chips, eh?

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Javier