virtio_net / netmap RX dropping frames

Vincenzo Maffione v.maffione at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 17:29:50 UTC 2017


I understand. My point was simply to make sure your performance problems
here are not netmap's fault.

Cheers,
  Vincenzo

2017-11-07 18:25 GMT+01:00 Joe Buehler <aspam at cox.net>:

> I believe the frame drop is due to the nature of my KVM setup.  There
> are large latencies in processing incoming frames due to the vagaries of
> the LINUX kernel.  Moving to the RT kernel helped, host tuning is also
> needed to eliminate large latencies in processing frames.  There is good
> information on real-time KVM on the net that explains how to achieve
> what I want.
>
> Joe Buehler
>
>


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Vincenzo Maffione


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