[Devel] Ethernet performance

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 07/17/2014 09:44 AM, Paul Sheer wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Thanks for the excellent wiki on openvz.org.
>
>
> We would like to move an application to a container that is currently
> running on bare metal.
>
> The ethernet card we are running is a Broadcom NetXstreme II with 10
> I/O channels. Each I/O channel is bound to it's own CPU.
>
> Our application processes 400,000 packets per second. Each of the 10
> CPUs is running at 80% load -- mostly consumed by interrupts.
>
> From your page  http://openvz.org/Differences_between_venet_and_veth
> I see that we will need to use veth since we do a lot of custom ARP
> work.
>
> However how will the system as a whole distribute packets across different CPUs?
>
> Basically what i am asking here:  is my idea to virtualize or
> containerize this application a pipe dream?
>

You can move an ethernet card to inside a container
(vzctl set --netdev_add).

(moving discussion to users@ list)