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Popularization of virtualization techniques in networking makes, among the well-known advantages, the packet manipulation process to be more complicated and CPU-intensive. In this paper we study techniques for improving the performance of the packet reception and forwarding within virtualized Xen environments. Namely, in a set of experiments we demonstrate the possibility for decreasing the number of packet losses by proper IRQ balancing and discuss the possibility to exploit the coalesce functionality built-in modern network adapters.
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Fortuna, T., Adamczyk, B. (2012). Improving Packet Reception and Forwarding within Virtualized Xen Environments. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31217-5_17
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