Re: Poor performance with virtio network driver on windows 2008 R2 on KVM

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Hi JR,

I mostly did this to stop the freezing. I'm back to troubleshoot this issue, since the e1000 driver performs worse with Linux 3.10 and qemu 2.0 now. One thing that did help a bit, was disabling vhost-net zero copy, but the latency and packet loss is still there (but not as much.)

Did you come up with anything?

-Peter

On 2014-05-15 11:01 AM, JR wrote:
Hi Peter,

Thanks for the advise.  How does the intel driver perform?  Wirespeed
range?  (Or, did you make the change more to fix the freezing rather
than to up the performance?)

Thanks
JR

On 5/15/2014 1:27 PM, Peter Kieser wrote:
On 2014-05-14 8:37 AM, JR wrote:
Greetings all,

Though I don't believe that this is KVM problem per se, I'm seeing very
poor network performance when using windows 2008R2 KVM instances with
the virtio driver when on a 10G network.  iperf results show linux VMs
getting close to wire speeds, while windows only does about 1.3Gb/sec.

I've tried a number of tcp settings (chimney, etc...) as recommended by
some google searches but nothing has helped.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks much,
JR


I ran into similar issues with the Redhat virtio drivers, and the guest
would freeze with high transfer. I switched to the emulated e1000 NIC
and haven't had any problems since.

-Peter



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