KVM PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS AND OPTIMIZATIONS - RedHat Summit, 2011 [.pdf]
http://www.redhat.com/summit/2011/presentations/summit/decoding_the_code/wednesday/wagner_w_420_kvm_performance_improvements_and_optimizations.pdf Internal performance-related changes to KVM available since RHEL 6.1 . ( vhost_net, NUMA TLB, THB , PCI-Bypass, etc) -