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		nly 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication Is that a typo? TCP was 2.5x faster? I presume this is down to much larger buffers in the TCP stack.

rwmj 50 days ago [–]

Not a typo & yes quite likely. I haven't tuned nbd/vsock at all.

Edit: I patched both ends to change SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF from the default (both 212992) to 4194304, and that made no difference.

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