Re: Networking performance on a KVM Host (with no guests)

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:53:39AM +0000, Chegu Vinod wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Perhaps this query was answered in the past. If yes kindly point me to 
> the same.
> 
> We noticed differences in networking performance (measured via netperf 
> over a 10G  NIC) on an X86_64 server between the following two 
> configurations :
> 
> 1) Server run as a KVM Host (but with no KVM guests created on it (or) no 
> extra  bridges created other than the default vibr0 bridge)  
> 
> vs. 
> 
> 2) The same server running the same version of Linux but without any of the 
> virtualization software installed on it. 
> 
> Config #2 performed much better ! 
> Is this expected ? What are the reasons behind this ? 
> 
> Is there any way to gain back the loss in performance on the KVM host 
> without having to uninstall the virtualization software (i.e. in Config 1).
> 
Can you list exactly what you need to uninstall to get performance back?

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