vtnet is still slow
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:04 UTC
Hi, I wondered if any work was happening to address the long-standing issue of slow vtnet? (in my case, this leads to slow freebsd guest performance in bhyve compared with every linux guest tested and OpenBSD). I thought maybe the recent bridge work may have ameliorated the problem some, but testing, after configuring a (recent) stable/15 server to use the ip-configured-on-bridge-method, showed no improvement using a (recent) stable/14 guest [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-60.03 sec 3.17 GBytes 454 Mbits/sec 0 sender [ 5] 0.00-60.03 sec 3.17 GBytes 454 Mbits/sec receiver for comparison, an ubuntu 25.04 guest: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-60.00 sec 6.42 GBytes 919 Mbits/sec 5427 sender [ 5] 0.00-60.00 sec 6.42 GBytes 919 Mbits/sec receiver the baremetal host [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-60.01 sec 6.58 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec 0 sender [ 5] 0.00-60.01 sec 6.58 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec receiver Tests done a year and a half ago on similar hardware showing the same patterns http://void.f-m.fm.user.fm/bhyve-virtio-testing.html --