Re: [ovs-discuss] IVSHMEM device performance

2016-03-30 Thread Eli Britstein
rmance penalties inherent in > memcpy. > > Perhaps a vhost-user device would better suit your needs? > > Thanks, > Mark > > >-Original Message- > >From: discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Eli > >Britstein > >Sent: Wednes

Re: [ovs-discuss] IVSHMEM device performance

2016-03-30 Thread Kavanagh, Mark B
tch.org >Subject: [ovs-discuss] IVSHMEM device performance > >Hi > >In a VM, I add a IVSHMEM device, on which the MBUFS mempool resides, and also >rings I create. >I saw there is a performance penalty if I use such device, instead of >hugepages (the VM's >hugepages). My

[ovs-discuss] IVSHMEM device performance

2016-03-30 Thread Eli Britstein
Hi In a VM, I add a IVSHMEM device, on which the MBUFS mempool resides, and also rings I create. I saw there is a performance penalty if I use such device, instead of hugepages (the VM's hugepages). My VM's memory is *NOT* backed with host's hugepages. The memory behind the IVSHMEM device is a h