Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
This section describes the NDIS virtual machine queue (VMQ) interface. The VMQ interface supports Microsoft Hyper-V network performance improvements in NDIS 6.20 and later in Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions of Windows Server.
The Virtual Machine Queue Architecture documentation describes the high-level concepts of the VMQ architecture. The Writing VMQ Drivers documentation provides the more detailed information about writing NDIS VMQ drivers.
Note Be sure to study the NDIS Virtual Miniport Driver sample, especially the vmq.c and vmq.h source files.
The VMQ interface supports:
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Classification of received packets in network adapter hardware by using the destination media access control (MAC) address to route the packets to different receive queues.
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NIC ability to use DMA to transfer packets directly to a virtual machine's shared memory. For more information about shared memory, see NDIS Memory Management Interface.
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Scaling to multiple processors by processing packets for different virtual machines on different processors.
This section includes the following topics:
