[dpdk-users] Drops seems with virtio PMD driver

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:12:54 +0530
Venumadhav Josyula <vjosyula at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>  >Are you using KVM?  
> Yes
> >Did you enable virtio net acceleration?  
> Will get back to you. Can you let me what are benefits of it ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Regards
> Venu

Without virtio net acceleration packets take longer path through QEMU
in userspace.  Acceleration keeps packets in kernel.