[Xen-users] Xen network latencies

[Joris Dobbelsteen <joris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear,

I have a network that runs VoIP. It passes through an Xen box that has 
a firewall running as DomU. The VoIP traffic is very sensitive to jitter 
in arrival times. The jitter causes jerky audio. Its easy to reproduce 
by simply downloading a lot of data and saturating downstream bandwidth 
on the ADSL connection.
However I have a hard time figuring out the cause of the jitter, since 
my configuration is getting more complex at this point in time. So 
anyone has ideas how I can measure and determinate the cause of my 
problems? Maybe any solutions to this problem?
- Joris

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Configuration:
Network path:
* My ISP.
* Xen Dom0 receives.
* DomU firewall receives and sends.
* Xen Dom0 sends.
* VoIP box.

Xen 3.1.2 with Gentoo Linux 2.6.18 x86-64 on Dom0.
DomU is Debian Etch (4.0) x86-64 xen-linux.
Using default credit scheduler and having 12 domains at very low CPU 
usage (its a core 2 duo @ 2.0 GHz).
On the firewall DomU I already see lots of jitter.

Things to blame:
* My ISP (should not be)
* Xen scheduler
* Dom0 packet buffering
* DomU packet buffering
* Combination of the above
* ...?

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