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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Michael Schinzel <schinzel@ip-projects.de>,
	Thomas Toka <toka@ip-projects.de>,
	Roger Pau Monne <roger.paumonne@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Read Performance issue when Xen Hypervisor is activated
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:32:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170113133234.GA27082@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484240629.9947.18.camel@citrix.com>

.
> time dd if=/dev/zero of=datei bs=1M count=10240
>   Without Xen (baremetal Linux)   With Xen (from within dom0)
>        73.7224 s, 146 MB/s            97.6948 s, 110 MB/s
>             real 1m13.724s                 real 1m37.700s
>              user 0m0.000s                 user  0m0.068s
>              sys  0m9.364s                 sys  0m15.180s
> 
> 
> root@Zhaman:~# time dd if=datei of=/dev/null
>   Without Xen (baremetal Linux)   With Xen (from within dom0)
>        9.92787 s, 1.1 GB/s            95.1827 s, 113 MB/s
>              real 0m9.953s                 real 1m35.194s
>              user 0m2.096s                 user 0m10.632s
>               sys 0m7.300s                  sys 0m51.820s
> 
> Which confirms that, when running the tests inside a Xen Dom0, things
> are indeed slower.

.. and which PVH should fix. Also 'dd' sucks for benchmark, pls
use 'fio' which more consistently checks storage speeds.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-13 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-27 14:26 Read Performance issue when Xen Hypervisor is activated Michael Schinzel
2016-12-30 16:34 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-12-30 16:53   ` Michael Schinzel
2016-12-31  9:07   ` Michael Schinzel
2017-01-02  7:15   ` Michael Schinzel
2017-01-12 17:03     ` Dario Faggioli
2017-01-13 13:32       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-12-26 11:48 Michael Schinzel

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