Low throughput in VMs using VxLAN

2015-08-24 Thread Santosh R
Hi, Earlier I was seeing lower throughput in VMs using VxLan as GRO was not happening in VM. Tom Herbert suggested to use "vxlan: GRO support at tunnel layer" patch series. With today's net-next (4.2.0-rc7) in host and VM, I could see GRO happening for vxlan, macvtap and virtual interface in V

GRO not happening in VM with VxLAN

2015-07-02 Thread Santosh R
Hi, I am testing VxLAN performance between VMs using 3.18 host kernel. For this I am using below command to bring up the VM. # qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4096 -smp 4 -boot c -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap0,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55 -netdev tap,id=tap0,script=no,vhost=on -drive file=/root/vdisk_rhel6