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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Weird network performance behaviour?
Older versions of Xen suffered from an interrupt-starving problem, I
believe. Others please correct me if 've misunderstood this.
I believe that there was a talk about this at the last Xen summit.
That is, domains that were started first were serviced first, when xen
went to service the interrupts.
As a result - systems stacked with many guests tended to get starved
for both disk, and network requests under high load scenarios.
A different scheduler was later introduced - though I'm not sure when.
(sometime 3.0.4 - 3.1, perhaps)
Its strange you are seeing it on odd/even numbers like this...but
perhaps it has something to do with this?
Fischer, Anna wrote:
I'm recording TCP network throughput performance between Dom0 IP stack and all my guest domains (currently 6 running simultaneously). All guests are running simultaneously, but I only ever transmit between Dom0 and one of the DomUs while the other five are idle.
When running a netperf TCP_STREAM test (netperf on Dom0, netserver on DomU) I record the following performance numbers, CPU % as reported by xentop (average of Dom0+DomU when transmitting packets):
VM 1: ~725Mbit/s, ~177 % CPU utilization (Dual Core CPU, so max is 200%)
VM 3: ~713Mbit/s, ~176 % CPU utilization (Dual Core CPU, so max is 200%)
VM 5: ~726Mbit/s, ~175 % CPU utilization (Dual Core CPU, so max is 200%)
VM 2: ~543Mbit/s, ~98 % CPU utilization (Dual Core CPU, so max is 200%)
VM 4: ~491Mbit/s, ~99 % CPU utilization (Dual Core CPU, so max is 200%)
VM 6: ~485Mbit/s, ~98 % CPU utilization (Dual Core CPU, so max is 200%)
You can see that VMs 1,3 and 5 achieve higher throughput than VMs 2,4 and 6 but use more CPU while doing so. All VMs have exactly the same configuration, and all VM VIFs are configured in the same way. There's no packet filtering or rate limiting set. I use Xen 3.0.2 (x86_64) in bridged mode, Dom0 kernel is a 2.6.16.13 SLES 10 Linux distribution, DomU is a PV 2.6.16.13 kernel. I haven't pinned VM VCPUs to CPUs and haven't specified any additional scheduling options.
Can anyone explain to me why I'm seeing different behaviours across these VMs that are all configured in the same way? For some more configuration details, please see the attached output below.
Many thanks,
Anna
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cat vm1.cfg
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-domU"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-domU"
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
memory = "384"
name = "vm1"
vif = [ 'vifname=v1, mac=00:50:56:88:89:90' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg_2_1/xen_9,sda1,w' ]
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:21:1F:9D:03
inet addr:16.25.159.80 Bcast:16.25.159.95 Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::213:21ff:fe1f:9d03/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:75660694 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:176286583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4995773877 (4764.3 Mb) TX bytes:259365749835 (247350.4 Mb)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:21:1F:9D:04
inet addr:16.25.165.100 Bcast:16.25.165.127 Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::213:21ff:fe1f:9d04/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:38343 (37.4 Kb) TX bytes:20781 (20.2 Kb)
Interrupt:17
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:22504 (21.9 Kb) TX bytes:22504 (21.9 Kb)
peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:236112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2423885 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:16925277 (16.1 Mb) TX bytes:2436117866 (2323.2 Mb)
Interrupt:18
v1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27711731 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56427200 errors:0 dropped:2654 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1830275087 (1745.4 Mb) TX bytes:80349454921 (76627.2 Mb)
v2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4616724 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14384939 errors:0 dropped:2014632 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:304703509 (290.5 Mb) TX bytes:21488056045 (20492.6 Mb)
v3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10927648 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23017367 errors:0 dropped:2854 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:721559417 (688.1 Mb) TX bytes:32445403841 (30942.3 Mb)
v4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18927006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:54413371 errors:0 dropped:2102067 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1249197313 (1191.3 Mb) TX bytes:82154159961 (78348.3 Mb)
v5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9124320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18253603 errors:0 dropped:2614 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:602303117 (574.4 Mb) TX bytes:26133009866 (24922.3 Mb)
v6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4119062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12586116 errors:0 dropped:914780 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:271863493 (259.2 Mb) TX bytes:19006089826 (18125.6 Mb)
vif0.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:176286596 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:75660701 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:259365787844 (247350.4 Mb) TX bytes:4995774405 (4764.3 Mb)
xenbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:124686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6268168 (5.9 Mb) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
xm info
release : 2.6.16.13-4-xen
version : #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006
machine : x86_64
nr_cpus : 2
nr_nodes : 1
sockets_per_node : 2
cores_per_socket : 1
threads_per_core : 1
cpu_mhz : 2605
hw_caps : 078bfbff:e3d3fbff:00000000:00000010:00000001
total_memory : 8024
free_memory : 2
max_free_memory : 5413
xen_major : 3
xen_minor : 0
xen_extra : .2_09656-4
xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64
platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset : 09656
cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)
cc_compile_by : abuild
cc_compile_domain : suse.de
cc_compile_date : Tue May 2 11:18:44 UTC 2006
xm dmesg
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Xen version 3.0.2_09656-4 (abuild@xxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) Tue May 2 11:18:44 UTC 2006
Latest ChangeSet: 09656
(XEN) Command line: /xen.gz noreboot
(XEN) Physical RAM map:
(XEN) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
(XEN) 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
(XEN) 0000000000100000 - 00000000f57f6800 (usable)
(XEN) 00000000f57f6800 - 00000000f5800000 (ACPI data)
(XEN) 00000000fdc00000 - 00000000fdc01000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fdc10000 - 00000000fdc11000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fec10000 - 00000000fec11000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fec20000 - 00000000fec21000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
(XEN) 0000000100000000 - 00000001fffff000 (usable)
(XEN) System RAM: 8023MB (8216144kB)
(XEN) Xen heap: 14MB (14348kB)
(XEN) Using scheduler: Simple EDF Scheduler (sedf)
(XEN) found SMP MP-table at 000f4fa0
(XEN) DMI 2.3 present.
(XEN) Using APIC driver default
(XEN) ACPI: RSDP (v002 HP ) @ 0x00000000000f4f20
(XEN) ACPI: XSDT (v001 HP A02 0x00000002 � 0x0000162e) @ 0x00000000f57f6be0
(XEN) ACPI: FADT (v003 HP A02 0x00000002 � 0x0000162e) @ 0x00000000f57f6c60
(XEN) ACPI: MADT (v001 HP 00000083 0x00000002 0x00000000) @ 0x00000000f57f6900
(XEN) ACPI: SPCR (v001 HP SPCRRBSU 0x00000001 � 0x0000162e) @ 0x00000000f57f69e0
(XEN) ACPI: SRAT (v001 HP A02 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x00000000f57f6a60
(XEN) ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP DSDT 0x00000001 MSFT 0x02000001) @ 0x0000000000000000
(XEN) ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
(XEN) Processor #0 15:5 APIC version 16
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
(XEN) Processor #1 15:5 APIC version 16
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x04] disabled)
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x05] disabled)
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] disabled)
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x07] disabled)
(XEN) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] high edge lint[0x1])
(XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
(XEN) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
(XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfec10000] gsi_base[24])
(XEN) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 17, address 0xfec10000, GSI 24-27
(XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x06] address[0xfec20000] gsi_base[28])
(XEN) IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 6, version 17, address 0xfec20000, GSI 28-31
(XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x07] address[0xfdc00000] gsi_base[32])
(XEN) IOAPIC[3]: apic_id 7, version 17, address 0xfdc00000, GSI 32-35
(XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfdc10000] gsi_base[36])
(XEN) IOAPIC[4]: apic_id 8, version 17, address 0xfdc10000, GSI 36-39
(XEN) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
(XEN) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
(XEN) ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
(XEN) Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 5 I/O APICs
(XEN) Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
(XEN) Initializing CPU#0
(XEN) Detected 2605.971 MHz processor.
(XEN) CPU0: AMD Flush Filter disabled
(XEN) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
(XEN) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
(XEN) Intel machine check architecture supported.
(XEN) Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
(XEN) CPU0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252 stepping 01
(XEN) Booting processor 1/1 eip 90000
(XEN) Initializing CPU#1
(XEN) CPU1: AMD Flush Filter disabled
(XEN) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
(XEN) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
(XEN) AMD: Disabling C1 Clock Ramping Node #0
(XEN) AMD: Disabling C1 Clock Ramping Node #1
(XEN) Intel machine check architecture supported.
(XEN) Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
(XEN) CPU1: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252 stepping 01
(XEN) Total of 2 processors activated.
(XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
(XEN) -> Using new ACK method
(XEN) ..TIMER: vector=0xF0 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0
(XEN) checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
(XEN) Platform timer is 1.193MHz PIT
(XEN) Brought up 2 CPUs
(XEN) Machine check exception polling timer started.
(XEN) Using IPI Shortcut mode
(XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
(XEN) Domain 0 kernel supports features = { 0000000f }.
(XEN) Domain 0 kernel requires features = { 00000000 }.
(XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Dom0 alloc.: 000000000e000000->0000000010000000 (1984486 pages to be allocated)
(XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Loaded kernel: ffffffff80100000->ffffffff80464088
(XEN) Init. ramdisk: ffffffff80465000->ffffffff80be9200
(XEN) Phys-Mach map: ffffffff80bea000->ffffffff81b1df30
(XEN) Start info: ffffffff81b1e000->ffffffff81b1f000
(XEN) Page tables: ffffffff81b1f000->ffffffff81b30000
(XEN) Boot stack: ffffffff81b30000->ffffffff81b31000
(XEN) TOTAL: ffffffff80000000->ffffffff81c00000
(XEN) ENTRY ADDRESS: ffffffff80100000
(XEN) Dom0 has maximum 2 VCPUs
(XEN) Initrd len 0x784200, start at 0xffffffff80465000
(XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: ..................................................................................done.
(XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen).
(XEN) mtrr: type mismatch for f6000000,800000 old: uncachable new: write-combining
(XEN) mtrr: type mismatch for f6000000,800000 old: uncachable new: write-combining
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