Hi Michael, I had seen the virtqueue_kick_prepare() where vring_need_event() is been used, but somehow for every start_xmit() call vq->event and need_kick is been set to true. Due to which for every start_xmit() its kicking via notify() routine. Regards Nitesh Narayan Lal _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization