[libvirt-users] Network speed between two guests on same host.
Hi,
I've got two hosts. Most of my guests are Windows systems. I'm using LANBench to
test network performance.
1) From an physical PC to a guest (it doesn't matter on which host), I get almost
1Gb/s. They are connected through a 1Gb/s swich => very good!
2) From a guest on one host to a guest on the other host => plusminus 1Gb/s =>
Okay!
3) Between two guests on the same host => plusminus 230Mb/s ???
The guests have network over a bridged interface, so I tried the same test over a NAT
interface => The same 230Mb/s...
Is there a way to tweak connection speeds between two guest running on the same host?
Thanks in advance...
An piece of the xml dump of one of the guests:
<domain type='kvm' id='17'>
<name>PCVIRTdra</name>
<uuid>925e4f9b-2c27-406d-bdd9-f3e0b44f28bb</uuid>
<title>PCVIRTdra - PC voor dra</title>
<description></description>
<memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
<memoryBacking>
<hugepages/>
</memoryBacking>
<vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu>
<resource>
<partition>/machine</partition>
</resource>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-utopic'>hvm</type>
<bootmenu enable='yes'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
<hyperv>
<relaxed state='on'/>
<vapic state='on'/>
<spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/>
</hyperv>
</features>
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
<model fallback='allow'>cpu64-rhel6</model>
<topology sockets='2' cores='2' threads='2'/>
</cpu>
<clock offset='localtime'>
<timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
<timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
<timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
<timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/>
</clock>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<pm>
<suspend-to-mem enabled='no'/>
<suspend-to-disk enabled='no'/>
</pm>
<devices>
....
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:b1:41:b3'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<target dev='vnet4'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<alias name='net0'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
.....