For anyone interested I have managed to get this working using a udev rule
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-vnet.rules
KERNEL=="vnet[0-9]", RUN+="/sbin/ifconfig %k txqueuelen 2500"
On 2 April 2012 18:03, Tim Hughes <thughes(a)thegoldfish.org> wrote:
Thankyou , I should be able to do it with the hooks. I have raised a
feature request at BZ809172
Tim Hughes
mailto:thughes@thegoldfish.org
On 2 April 2012 17:22, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:15:55PM +0100, Tim Hughes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have been tuning our libvirt hosts and discovered that setting the
> > txqueuelen on vnetX devices to 2500 we can increase the network
> throughput
> > by a factor of almost 10. On an eth device it can be set by
> hand/rc.local
> > with the following instructions
> >
>
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/gentoo-centos-rhel-debian-fedora-increasing-...
> > . Because vnetX devices are named on a 'first free' basis and they
come
> > and go with the guests the rc.local method is not going to work. I think
> > this needs to be done via libvirt or possibly udev, maybe with some
> kind of
> > hook. Ideally I would like to be able to set this automatically for all
> > vnetX devices when they are created or even better, on a per guest
> basis.
>
> You can probably do this with a hook script:
>
>
http://libvirt.org/hooks.html
>
> Please also file a BZ requesting that this tunable be directly supported
> by libvirt.
>
> Daniel
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