On 04/15/2013 01:58 AM, Jason Wang wrote: >> Initializing them only when they're actually needed will do the trick here. > I don't see so much memory allocation with qemu, the main problem I > guess here is kvmtool does not support mergeable rx buffers ( does it? > ). So guest must allocate 64K per packet which would be even worse in > multiqueue case. If mergeable rx buffer was used, the receive buffer > will only occupy about 256 * 4K (1M) which seems pretty acceptable here. Yup, kvmtool doesn't do mergable RX at the moment. I'll add support for that in, thanks for pointing it out! Thanks, Sasha -- 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