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xen-ia64-devel
[Xen-ia64-devel] HVM Multi-Processor Performance followup
 
Hi everyone, 
  
A follow-up on the multiprocessor performance benchmark on
HVM guests. 
  
We ran the RE-AIM7 benchmarks on a 5-cell (40 CPU) machine
and a single-cell 8-cpu NEC machine. 
  
Here are the jobs per minute maximums. 
  
You can see the drop in performance starts to get really bad
at about 9 CPUs and beyond. 
  
Questions: 
  
1.      
What can I do to help improve this situation? 
2.      
Are there any other experiments I can run? 
3.      
What tools/profilers will help to gather more data
here? 
  
I am very interested in helping to solve this problem! Thanks
for your ideas and suggestions. 
  
Best regards, 
  
---Kayvan 
  
  
 
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   Xen performance comparison on
  5-Cell NEC machine (each cell with 4 dual-core Itaniums) 
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   HVM
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   Overhead 
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   1 
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   2037 
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   1791 
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   12.08% 
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   2 
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   4076 
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   3615 
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   11.31% 
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   3 
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   6090 
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   5221 
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   14.27% 
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   4 
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   8118 
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   6839 
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   15.76% 
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   5 
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   10119 
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   8404 
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   16.95% 
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   6 
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   12037 
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   9949 
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   17.35% 
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   7 
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   14106 
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   11095 
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   21.35% 
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   8 
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   15953 
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   12360 
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   22.52% 
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   9 
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   18059 
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   13201 
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   26.90% 
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   10 
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   20170 
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   13742 
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   31.87% 
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   11 
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   21896 
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   13694 
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   37.46% 
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   12 
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   24079 
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   13331 
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   44.64% 
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   13 
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   25992 
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   12374 
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   52.39% 
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   14 
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   28072 
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   11684 
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   58.38% 
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   15 
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   29931 
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   11032 
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   63.14% 
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   16 
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   31696 
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   10451 
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   67.03% 
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   The guest OS was CentOS-4.6
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   running under a Dom0 that was
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   Xen performance comparison on
  1-Cell NEC machine (4 dual core Itanium Montecito) 
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   1 
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   2037 
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   1779 
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   12.67% 
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   2 
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   4067 
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   3619 
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   11.02% 
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   3 
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   6097 
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   5344 
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   12.35% 
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   4 
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   8112 
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   7004 
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   13.66% 
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   5 
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   10145 
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   8663 
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   14.61% 
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   12023 
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   10213 
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   15.05% 
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   14083 
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   11249 
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   20.12% 
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   16182 
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   12969 
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   19.86% 
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