Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:09:04 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: bv <deboomerang@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] FreeBSD VirtIO Network Driver Message-ID: <AANLkTim1qg07vq9eB%2Bx8jXjt0qeu7in8wEaNQaqwiVa9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=OB%2B1A-zQYupU5w1AoY-EodndexcwEC4kg27x3@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=OB%2B1A-zQYupU5w1AoY-EodndexcwEC4kg27x3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:02 PM, bv <deboomerang@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I'd like to present the network VirtIO driver I've been working on for > the last few months in my spare time. It is not based on the NetBSD code > that is floating around. The attached patch should apply to both recent > -current and -stable. Early development was done on VirtualBox, > but most has been done on KVM/QEMU. > <snip> > I'm going to be away from my computer for the next couple of days, > I'll get to any email after then. > Thanks for this work, I'm sure it will be quite useful. I'm testing on a FreeBSD Virtualbox Host/Guest. Guest is CURRENT kern.osrevision: 199506 virtualbox-ose-3.2.10_2 My particular version of Virtualbox isn't optimized yet for virtio I believe, but I did see about 1/3 higher peak bandwidth and a definite reduction in CPU usage. -- Adam Vande More
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