Dell Performance

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Cuts Virtualized Messaging Latency

Date : 11/30/2010
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Companies who rely upon time-sensitive, high-communication software applications require the lowest possible messaging latency. In Principled Technologies’ tests, hardware-assisted single root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) guest virtual machines delivered messages on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.0 with kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) with less than half the latency of standard KVM bridged networking for message sizes ranging from 8 to 1,024 bytes.