On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 21:31 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Well slowing down the guest does not sound hard - for example we can > request guest notifications, or send extra interrupts :) > A slightly more sophisticated thing to try is to > poll the vq a bit more aggressively. > For example if we handled some requests and now tx vq is empty, > reschedule and yeild. Worth a try? I used dropping packets in high level to slow down TX. I am still thinking what's the right the approach here. Requesting guest notification and extra interrupts is what we want to avoid to reduce VM exits for saving CPUs. I don't think it's good. By polling the vq a bit more aggressively, you meant vhost, right? Shirley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html