Side note: I am not using vhost-net yet. I am reading from the blogs that vhost-net gives much better performance. I am putting another system up with vhost-net support to measure this. Appreciate the pointers for previous question. /a On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Al Patel <alps.oss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi , > > We have been using qemu/kvm 0.12.5 (unchanged with stock kernel 2.6.32). > > I just upgraded to qemu/kvm-1.0 and see noticable difference in packet I/O. > > I want to understand the enhancements in 1.0 that leads to better performance. > > Can you give me some pointers? > > Off the bat I see new event code. From observation, I see that the > qemu-kvm process is > taking a whole lot less CPU. > > Thanks > /a -- 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