Performance Tuning

10GbE in a Virtual World - cont
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Going forward:
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PCI_passthru looks promising for performance
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Guest has direct control over NIC
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Network throughput for fully-virt/HVM guests will be limited
to 100Mb/s. It can be improved by installing the para-virt
drivers for fully-virt/HVM RHEL/Windows guests
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kvm has virtio work going on to improve performance