From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 07:09:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97ACE106566C for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 07:09:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265F48FC0C for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 07:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so12840389fxm.13 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:09:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=eqS6/cVP/S6PbXPPmutWshvRifXmUb/r+iG1zVy26JI=; b=MqsQ/THGEFfllqDlwpwm1D6SDnzaGljFmfJc10xPvKo+nsURxhXy47XN4xSPeYZg2Z S9IOC8jaAqe/H6izN70OsmZHaplT8qYiWqUkn5x79BKZAsrvekPp1Iyp7LxVc4rsU744 hrSukZcm7+ZbEC29sFtShp9QJncKYKNYVZOqo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=jOBnfE7TXQ6PokKhOzFLXzRjswDmkn1QZfLLZiLZHgKZkWfmtBl4yUkR87FiktRHNF JY4ql/75yUiCEoCPoOtXT0lmIH/jNYExKlbI8RrjdZCp7+EwHuc0GpHAKjG8FaE/OmiO S+/fUA+Bs9G+01P40cQB5QcqusrBtIsPHPxEY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.106.129 with SMTP id x1mr404755fao.13.1294038544995; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:09:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.114.4 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:09:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:09:04 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: bv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] FreeBSD VirtIO Network Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:09:07 -0000 On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:02 PM, bv 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. > > 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