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Re: [Xen-devel] GPL PV drivers for Windows 0.9.11-pre12

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] GPL PV drivers for Windows 0.9.11-pre12
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:00:17 +0300
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:41:37PM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> I've just uploaded 0.9.11-pre12 of the GPL PV drivers for Windows.
> 
> Since -pre10 (and -pre11) I've fixed a heap of crashes that were
> plaguing xennet under load, and also rewritten the interrupt/event
> distribution logic to improve performance.
> 
> Under windows 2003 I can now get network speeds of 1-2Gbit/second TX and
> 600Gbit/second RX, which is considerably better than I was getting
> before.
> 

600 Gbit/sec is pretty damn fast ;) 

But yeah.. hopefully people can run some iometer benchmarks again for this
driver version! Would be nice know how it behaves on other peoples boxes.

-- Pasi

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