From: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it>
Subject: asymmetric performance for network I/O
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:23:09 +0200
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Hello,
I did some tsts with KVM virtual machines.
I gan good results on gigabit interface with inbound traffic, I get almost
gigabit saturation (1Gb/s). I have lower perforance outbound
that is around 500Mbit/s.

Is it normal in your opinion ?
I mean is there some hard coded limit for network I/O performance ?

any experience of someone else about this topic ?

thanks

Rick