Re: VirtIO Net Tuning

Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 25. Mar 2026, at 15:06, Mark Saad <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello All
>   I have been playing with FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE and 15.0-REELASE amd64 qemu powered vms on a Linux cloud hosting setup. I have noticed that with VirtIO net ( vtnet ) interfaces there is some sort of tuning required , or there is some sort of limitation on the packets per second and overall throughput the nics can push.  I am not able to get any one interface to push more then 6Gb/s bursts and 5.5Gb/s sustained. Before I go off the deep end with details has anyone run into this , is this a known issue ?
Hi Mark,

as indicated by Mike, there has been a lot of improvements to vtnet in 14.4 and 15.0
such that no special tuning is required.
If you find that some tuning is necessary to improve things, I would like to know,
since this is not intended.
I am not saying that the vtnet driver can't be improved, only that the default
settings should not need tweaking.

Best regards
Michael
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