Jeremy: this is interesting. The performance of pvops dom0 seems to be
pretty close to 2.6.18-xen with iperf workload!
Yingbin: Thanks for the result.
-- Pasi
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 02:42:24PM +0800, yingbin wang wrote:
> of course.
> the attachment is the dom0 kernel compile config that fix the problem.
> I don't know the exact config option which cause the problem, so I
> don't test 2.6.18.8 with debug.you can compare it with the previous
> config to find the differences.
>
> Here are my test results:
>
> test tool: iperf-2.0.4
> command:
> root@xxxxxxxxxxx : iperf -s
> root@xxxxxxxxxxx : iperf -c 10.250.6.25 -i 1 -t 100
>
> network performance:
>
> xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.13(with debug):
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 4] 0.0- 9.5 sec 249 MBytes 219 Mbits/sec
>
> xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.13(without debug):
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 4] 0.0-100.0 sec 10.7 GBytes 920 Mbits/sec
>
> xen3.4.2+kernel2.6.18.8(without debug):
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 4] 0.0-15.0 sec 1.64 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec
>
> xen4.0+kernel2.6.18.8(without debug):
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 4] 0.0-16.3 sec 1.79 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec
>
> Cheers,
> wyb
>
> 2010/4/19 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 04:49:42PM +0800, yingbin wang wrote:
> >> the problem is solved.
> >>
> >> we closed most of the debug config options. a miracle happened. the
> >> performance returned to the level before.
> >> we compared the .config of 2.6.18.8 with 2.6.31.13. the differences
> >> are the debug options.
> >> I think the default .config in 2.6.31.13 should close the debug
> >> options or provide a way to turn off.
> >>
> >
> > Could you please post the exact .config options you turned off to fix the
> > problem?
> > I can add that info to the wiki page.
> >
> > Also can you please post the performance numbers with 2.6.18.8 and
> > pvops dom0 with and without debug? This would be interesting to know.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> >> thanks all
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> wyb
> >>
> >> 2010/4/16 yingbin wang <yingbin.wangyb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > Hi:
> >> > I report a Bug !!! We have just upgraded to
> >> > xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.13 recently. however , fond that the network
> >> > performance drop heavily in dom0 (nearly Reduced by 2/3 vs
> >> > xen3.4.2+kernel2.6.18.8 ) .
> >> >
> >> > our env :
> >> > hardware :
> >> > Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz
> >> > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II
> >> > BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
> >> > 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II
> >> > BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
> >> > compile env and filesystem :
> >> > Redhat AS 5.4
> >> >
> >> > xm info :
> >> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > host : r02k08015
> >> > release : 2.6.31.13xen
> >> > version : #1 SMP Tue Apr 13 20:38:51 CST 2010
> >> > machine : x86_64
> >> > nr_cpus : 16
> >> > nr_nodes : 2
> >> > cores_per_socket : 4
> >> > threads_per_core : 2
> >> > cpu_mhz : 2266
> >> > hw_caps :
> >> > bfebfbff:28100800:00000000:00001b40:009ce3bd:00000000:00000001:00000000
> >> > virt_caps : hvm
> >> > total_memory : 24539
> >> > free_memory : 15596
> >> > node_to_cpu : node0:0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14
> >> > node1:1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15
> >> > node_to_memory : node0:3589
> >> > node1:12007
> >> > node_to_dma32_mem : node0:2584
> >> > node1:0
> >> > max_node_id : 1
> >> > xen_major : 4
> >> > xen_minor : 0
> >> > xen_extra : .0
> >> > xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
> >> > hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
> >> > xen_scheduler : credit
> >> > xen_pagesize : 4096
> >> > platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
> >> > xen_changeset : unavailable
> >> > xen_commandline : dom0_mem=10240M
> >> > cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
> >> > cc_compile_by : root
> >> > cc_compile_domain :
> >> > cc_compile_date : Tue Apr 13 23:04:16 CST 2010
> >> > xend_config_format : 4
> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > test tool: iperf-2.0.4
> >> > command:
> >> > root@xxxxxxxxxxx : iperf -s
> >> > root@xxxxxxxxxxx : iperf -c 10.250.6.25 -i 1 -t 100
> >> >
> >> > network performance:
> >> >
> >> > xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.13:
> >> > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> >> > [ 4] 0.0- 9.5 sec 249 MBytes 219 Mbits/sec
> >> >
> >> > xen3.4.2+kernel2.6.18.8:
> >> > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> >> > [ 4] 0.0-15.0 sec 1.64 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec
> >> >
> >> > BTW ,1 the disk IO performance also reduce from 90MB/s to 60MB/s.
> >> > 2 the attachment is the dom0 kernel compile config.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > wyb
> >> >
> >>
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