[lxc-devel] poor 10G ethernet performance

[Michael Tokarev]

On 11.05.2012 20:59, Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL wrote:
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> In the container, could you create a MACVLAN interface in bridge mode 
> attached to your 10Gb Ethernet interface, instead of going through a 
> bridge device?  I would expect that to perform better.

FWIW, I tested macvlan vs bridge in the past -- the speed difference
was about 10x slower for macvlan.  It was with qemu-kvm not lxc, and
it was quite some time ago, so maybe modern kernel with lxc will
perform better here.

/mjt