Question about DPDK performance on bare-metal VS virtual

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

On 11 April 2016 at 15:57, Christian Ehrhardt <
christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Nish Aravamudan <
> nish.aravamudan at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11.04.2016 [03:56:09 -0300], Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
>> > On 11 April 2016 at 03:36, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> <snip>
>> >  BTW, is it possible to translate those qemu options, into a Libvirt
>> XML?
>> > Very annoying to deal with those commands...
>>
>> I believe virsh has domxml-to-native/native-to-domxml commands. "native"
>> type can be specified as qemu-argv, iirc.
>>
>> Hi,
> for Thiagos current need it really is even easier - You have a few places
> you care about regarding dpdk
> - mutliqueue for virtio-nics to use them from a guest
> - shared huge page memory when using vhost_user
> - vhost_user based nics + multiqueue for those
>
> All of them have libvirt XML sections now, no commandline nor even
> qemu-argv needed at all.
> That is what I pointed to the serverguide for as I have examples of all
> these sections there.
>
> cu
> Christian
>

Awesome Christian!

This is all on new ServerGuide (serverguide-16.04-dev)...

I can't wait to see my DPDK App running inside of a KVM guest on its full
speed! Looks like that I am almost there! Thanks to Ubuntu 16.04!

Thank you!

Cheers,
Thiago
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