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RE: [Xen-devel] question about disk performance in domU
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>> Tim Freeman
>> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:45 PM
>> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: keahey@xxxxxxxxxxx; xuehai zhang
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] question about disk performance in domU
>>
>>
>> So the "Timing buffered disk reads" show much higher
>> results. I see the DMA zone is larger in domU, but since
>> this is mapped to a loopback file I'm guessing the physical
>> disk performance should only be affected by what dom0's DMA
>> zone is set to on the node running the domU if that is all
>> that was going on. But dom0 performance seems comparable to
>> native linux.
>>
>> Is this huge "timing buffered disk read" difference
>> accurate? Does the domU benefit from some other cache of the
>> loopback file in dom0?
Yes. It seems to me that this is the effect of the file buffer
cache on dom0. hdparm flushes the file cache on domU
to make sure that there is no data in the file buffer cache
when measuring device access times (reported as buffered disk
reads). However when using VBDs mapped to files, the data is
also cached on dom0 file buffer. Therefore data is not coming
directly from the device but from dom0 file cache. Note how the
amount of data that is read in 3 sec increases at each step,
since data read in previous steps come from dom0 file cache.
Regards
Renato
>> Thanks for any insights,
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:41:08 -0600
>> xuehai zhang <hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > When I ran the experiments to compare an application's
>> execution time
>> > in both a domU (named cctest1) and a native Linux machine (named
>> > ccn10), I noticed the application executes faster in domU.
>> The host
>> > of the domU (named ccn9) and ccn10 are two nodes of a
>> cluster and they
>> > have same hardware configurations. domU (cctest1) is created by
>> > exporting loopback files from dom0 on ccn9 as VBD backends. The
>> > application execution logs there might be some disk I/O difference
>> > between cctest and ccn10, so I did some disk performance
>> profiling
>> > with "hdparms" on cctest1 (domU), ccn10 (native Linux),
>> ccn9 (dom0),
>> > and ccn9 (native Linux). Also, I checked the "DMA" config
>> information
>> > from the output of dmesg. I tried to run "hdparm -i" and
>> "hdparm -I"
>> > but they didn't work. Seems they didn't work with SCSI disks. The
>> > following are the results. Thanks in advance for your help. Best,
>> > Xuehai
>> >
>> > 1. cctest1 (dumU)
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > ********************* cctest1$ df -lh
>> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sda1 1.5G 1.1G 306M 78% /
>> > tmpfs 62M 4.0K 62M 1% /dev/shm
>> > /dev/sda6 4.2G 3.6G 453M 89% /tmp
>> > /dev/sda5 938M 205M 685M 23% /var
>> >
>> > cctest1$ dmesg | grep DMA
>> > DMA zone: 101376 pages, LIFO batch:16
>> >
>> > cctest1$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do hdparm -tT /dev/sda1; done
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 512 MB in 2.00 seconds = 256.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.00 seconds =
>> 14.67 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 528 MB in 2.01 seconds = 262.69 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 84 MB in 3.08 seconds =
>> 27.27 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 520 MB in 2.00 seconds = 260.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.06 seconds =
>> 39.22 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 520 MB in 2.00 seconds = 260.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.06 seconds =
>> 49.02 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 536 MB in 2.00 seconds = 268.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 178 MB in 3.17 seconds =
>> 56.15 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 536 MB in 2.00 seconds = 268.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 204 MB in 3.08 seconds =
>> 66.23 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 532 MB in 2.00 seconds = 266.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 228 MB in 3.13 seconds =
>> 72.84 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 540 MB in 2.01 seconds = 268.66 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 248 MB in 3.04 seconds =
>> 81.58 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 540 MB in 2.00 seconds = 270.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.06 seconds =
>> 86.93 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 532 MB in 2.00 seconds = 266.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 282 MB in 3.06 seconds =
>> 92.16 MB/sec
>> >
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > *********************
>> >
>> >
>> > 2. ccn10 (native Linux)
>> >
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > *********************
>> >
>> > ccn10$ df -lh
>> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sda1 1.5G 1.3G 149M 90% /
>> > tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
>> > /dev/sda6 4.2G 3.6G 358M 92% /tmp
>> > /dev/sda5 938M 706M 184M 80% /var
>> >
>> > ccn10$ dmesg | grep DMA
>> > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
>> >
>> > ccn10$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do hdparm -tT /dev/sda1; done
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 257.78 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.03 seconds =
>> 20.47 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 524 MB in 2.01 seconds = 261.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.61 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 257.65 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.61 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 524 MB in 2.00 seconds = 262.04 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.61 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 257.78 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds =
>> 20.51 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 524 MB in 2.00 seconds = 261.78 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds =
>> 20.52 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 257.78 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds =
>> 20.51 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 524 MB in 2.00 seconds = 261.78 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds =
>> 20.50 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 257.40 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.09 seconds =
>> 20.73 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 524 MB in 2.01 seconds = 260.87 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.61 MB/sec
>> >
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > *********************
>> >
>> >
>> > 3. ccn9 (dom0)
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > *********************
>> >
>> > ccn9$ df -lh
>> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sda1 1.5G 1.1G 306M 78% /
>> > tmpfs 62M 4.0K 62M 1% /dev/shm
>> > /dev/sda6 4.2G 3.6G 453M 89% /tmp
>> > /dev/sda5 938M 205M 685M 23% /var
>> >
>> > ccn9$ dmesg | grep DMA
>> > DMA zone: 32768 pages, LIFO batch:8
>> >
>> > ccn9$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do hdparm -tT /dev/sda1; done
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 504 MB in 2.00 seconds = 252.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.14 seconds =
>> 19.11 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 258.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.15 seconds =
>> 19.68 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 512 MB in 2.00 seconds = 256.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.08 seconds =
>> 19.48 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 258.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 58 MB in 3.02 seconds =
>> 19.21 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.01 seconds = 256.72 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.12 seconds =
>> 19.23 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 520 MB in 2.00 seconds = 260.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.13 seconds =
>> 19.17 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 520 MB in 2.01 seconds = 258.71 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.13 seconds =
>> 19.17 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 520 MB in 2.01 seconds = 258.71 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.06 seconds =
>> 19.61 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.01 seconds = 256.72 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.14 seconds =
>> 19.11 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 258.00 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.15 seconds =
>> 19.05 MB/sec
>> >
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > *********************
>> >
>> > 4. ccn9 (native Linux)
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > ********************* ccn9$ df -lh
>> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sda1 1.5G 1.1G 306M 78% /
>> > tmpfs 62M 4.0K 62M 1% /dev/shm
>> > /dev/sda6 4.2G 3.6G 453M 89% /tmp
>> > /dev/sda5 938M 205M 685M 23% /var
>> >
>> > ccn9 $ dmesg | grep DMA
>> > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
>> >
>> > ccn9$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do hdparm -tT /dev/sda1; done
>> > /dev/sda1:
>> > Timing cached reads: 492 MB in 2.01 seconds = 244.57 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.10 seconds =
>> 20.01 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 484 MB in 2.01 seconds = 241.07 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 48 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 15.95 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 484 MB in 2.00 seconds = 241.67 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.03 seconds =
>> 20.45 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 484 MB in 2.01 seconds = 241.31 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.57 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 480 MB in 2.01 seconds = 239.08 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.03 seconds =
>> 20.49 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 488 MB in 2.01 seconds = 243.31 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.05 seconds =
>> 20.31 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 484 MB in 2.01 seconds = 241.31 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.61 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 484 MB in 2.00 seconds = 241.67 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.59 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 488 MB in 2.01 seconds = 242.34 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.01 seconds =
>> 20.59 MB/sec
>> >
>> > Timing cached reads: 484 MB in 2.01 seconds = 240.35 MB/sec
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.09 seconds =
>> 20.09 MB/sec
>> >
>> *************************************************************
>> *********
>> > *******
>> > *********************
>> >
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