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[Xen-users] Pthreads Overhead

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Subject: [Xen-users] Pthreads Overhead
From: Bent Masriya <bentmasriya@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:59:55 -0400
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Hi all,
I have been seeing a considerable (2x-3x) overhead when using Posix pthreads and pthreads mutux synchronization on Xen dom0. I am not sure if this is an inherent overhead of Xen or a wrong configuration on my side.

Basically,  I run a simple benchmark to time pthread_create and pthread_mutex_lock/unlock for 200 threads and the overhead I am measuring for xen dom0 is  1.5x-2.9x relative to the non-xenified (native) performance. Can someone please confirm if they have seen similar overhead and/or shed some light on the source of this overhead

I am using 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64Xen with eight VCPU, and 8 physical cores/ 2 sockets and comparing it to Linux 2.6.18.8 SMP on the same machine.  This is Xen 3.2 with a credit scheduler. I am seeing this overhead for both HVM and paravirtualized Xen. Please, advise.
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