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RE: [Xen-devel] Network Throughput Guide

To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Network Throughput Guide
From: Rok Strnisa <rok.strnisa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:24:09 +0100
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> Rok Strnisa writes ("RE: [Xen-devel] Network Throughput Guide"):
> > Modifying the TCP parameters within the VM can have a large impact
> > --- I guess the PV tools could do that automatically?
> 
> I was thinking that patches should be sent to make the guest (and
> dom0) use the right tuning values automatically.  For the dom0 this
> might be done by the toolstack but for guests it should surely be done
> by the guest kernel rather than fixed up later by some kind of
> separately-distributed PV tools (which nowadays we don't expect modern
> Linux guests to need or maybe even have).

Good point. I will push the issue forward for the toolstack, and ask around 
regarding guest kernels.

R

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