svn commit: r270063 - in head: sys/conf sys/dev/cxgbe sys/dev/e1000 sys/dev/ixgbe sys/dev/netmap sys/dev/virtio/network sys/net tools/tools/netmap

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 03:00:01PM +0000, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Author: luigi
...
>   5. if_lem.c: support for various paravirtualization features,
>     experimental and disabled by default.
>     Most of these are described in our ANCS'13 paper [1].
>     Paravirtualized support in netmap mode is new, and beats the
>     numbers in the paper by a large factor (under qemu-kvm,
>     we measured gues-host throughput up to 10-12 Mpps).

ref. [1] is
    Luigi Rizzo, Giuseppe Lettieri, Vincenzo Maffione, Speeding up
    packet I/O in virtual machines, ACM/IEEE ANCS'13, October 2013, San Jose

you can find a draft of the pdf on my research page
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html

	cheers
	luigi