Bug 632747

Summary: [6.1 FEAT] KVM Network Performance: Enable multi-thread vhost-net
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: kernelAssignee: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: akong, jjarvis, jolsa, khong, nhorman, nobody+PNT0273897, sbest, tburke, tgraf, wquan
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: 6.1   
Hardware: other   
OS: All   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2010-12-27 09:27:07 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Blocks: 538808, 565939, 580566, 580954, 642595, 662543    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2010-09-10 20:51:30 UTC 
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [67148]
a. Name of Feature: [6.1 FEAT] KVM Network Performance: Enable multi-thread vhost-net
b. Feature Description
Enable multi-thread vhost-net to improve network throughput and latency when using virtio.


2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC Networking
Architectures:
  x86, x86_64, 

Arch Specificity: both
Affects Kernel Modules: Field does not exist
Delivery Mechanism: Backport
Category: kernel
Request Type: Kernel - Performance Enhancement from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance: Field does not exist
Sponsor Priority P3
f. Severity: high
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: 3rd party code
g. Component Version Target:
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3. Business Case
KVM network performance is a critical requirement for multiple IBM virtualization/cloud based
products and solutions.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Michael L. Hohnbaum, hbaum.com

Technical contact(s):
Sridhar Samudrala, samudrala.com
Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-10-04 15:07:33 UTC 
------- Comment From rsisk.com 2010-10-04 10:36 EDT-------
Code Upstream Status: Accepted
Comment 6 Dor Laor 2010-12-27 09:27:07 UTC 
Michael says that thread per guest is in rhel already. I'm closing the bug