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We did some experiment trying to measure network performance overhead in virtualization environment, comparing between VFIO passthrough and virtio approaches.
We did some experiment trying to measure network performance overhead in virtualization environment, comparing between VFIO passthrough and virtio approaches.


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== Test Topology ==
 
2 Intel Grantley-EP platforms (Xeon E5-2697 v3) connected by 10G link; memory 96 G.
 
NIC: Intel 82599ES
 
Test Tool: iperf
 
OS: RHEL 7.1

Revision as of 05:40, 11 May 2015

We did some experiment trying to measure network performance overhead in virtualization environment, comparing between VFIO passthrough and virtio approaches.

Test Topology

2 Intel Grantley-EP platforms (Xeon E5-2697 v3) connected by 10G link; memory 96 G.

NIC: Intel 82599ES

Test Tool: iperf

OS: RHEL 7.1