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.
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Adam Vande More