RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?

[tgingold@xxxxxxx]

Quoting Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@xxxxxxxxx>:

> For the Montecito chip, running the RE-AIM7 compute workload, we have the
> following preliminary summary:
>
> Native vs. Xen performace
> ----------------------------------
> At 2-CPU, the overhead was 13%.
> At 4-CPU, the overhead was 17%
> At 8-cpu, overhead was 28%
> At 16-cpu, the overhead was 173%
>
> Not quite sure why the performance dropped off so radically in the 16-CPU
> case.

Can you tell us a little bit more about your machine?

Is it 16 logical cpus (hyperthread) or 16 cores ?

Are all the cpus on the same bus or is it a NUMA machine ?

That could explain the drop off.

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