Re: [Xen-devel] n/w performance degradation

To:	Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] n/w performance degradation
From:	Diwaker Gupta <diwaker.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:06:52 -0800
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> The main focus of the 3.0.0 release has been corectness rather than
> performance tuning. We plan to do some tweaking over the coming weeks to
> address this. We used to get 900Mb/s with a single CPU core, and there's
> absoloutely no reason why we shouldn't do so again -- in fact, we should
> do better in terms of CPU usage than 2.0 as as we now have checksum
> offload.

I completely agree. Now that 3.0.0 is out of the door, it should be
easier to focus on performance, rather than functionality and
correctness.

> Now we have great performance monitoring tools like xen-oprofile,
> xenperf, xenmon etc it should be wuite straightforward to optimize
> things.  Let's just wait until we've delt with any critical bugs arising
> from the release...

Sounds good, thanks.

Diwaker
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