[Xen-users] scalability issue.

["dkar4700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dkar4700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm finding this results a bit surprising , could some please explain whether this is the expected behavior.
I'm running a single threaded application ( calculating pi for many decimal points ). Each VM has 1 vcpu with 128MB of ram. The physical box has quad-core processor ( HT disabled ). When I increase the number of VMs the time it takes to calculate the result taking longer ( Performance goes down ). I could clearly see that each VM will just use 1 CPU when it is running the tests.

Why there is a such a huge jump in time although there are enough physical cores available ( at least upto 3 Vms) ?
Please let me know if any more information is necessary.

VM1 – 31.85

Number of VMs.
VM1 – 35.98
VM2 – 36.11

Number of Vms
VM1 - 43.57
VM2 - 42.55
VM3  -42.48

Number of VMs
VM1 - 51.093
VM2 - 49.953
VM3 - 50.141
VM3 - 49.844

XEN version
dpkg -l | grep -i xen

ii  libc6-xen                         2.11.2-6                    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [Xen version]
ii  libxenstore3.0                    4.0.1-1                     Xenstore communications library for Xen
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686      2.6.32-23                   Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs, Xen dom0 support
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64          4.0.1-1                     The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
ii  xen-tools                         4.2-1                       Tools to manage Xen virtual servers
ii  xen-utils-4.0                     4.0.1-1                     XEN administrative tools
ii  xen-utils-common                  4.0.0-1                     XEN administrative tools - common files
ii  xenstore-utils                    4.0.1-1                     Xenstore utilities for Xen

All guest machines 'uname -a'
Linux vm1 2.6.32-5-xen-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 18:09:47 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

xm dmesg| grep -i credit
(XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit)

xm sched-credit
Name                                ID Weight  Cap
Domain-0                             0    256    0
vm1                                 57    256  100
vm2                                 58    256  100


Dom0 is pinned to CPU0.
Name                                ID  VCPU   CPU State   Time(s) CPU Affinity
Domain-0                             0     0     0   r--    6907.9 0
Domain-0                             0     1     -   --p      74.9 any cpu
Domain-0                             0     2     -   --p      92.4 any cpu
Domain-0                             0     3     -   --p      62.2 any cpu
vm1                                 57     0     2   -b-    6614.7 any cpu
vm2                                 58     0     1   -b-    5797.1 any cpu


--
Dkar

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