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teknoraver on Sept 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

Because the cards were in PCI passthrough, so the performance was exactly the same of a physical system

lostmsu on Sept 19, 2021 [–]

Author mentions as much as to say that there's was some indirectness at least in the interrupts.

There are also VirtIO drivers involved, and according to the article, they had effect too.

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