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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Cc: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: 4.2.1: Poor write performance for DomU.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:06:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5124AE19.2000802@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5124AF9F02000078000BFA35@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On 20/02/13 10:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 20.02.13 at 10:49, Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> wrote:
>> My build of Xen 4.2.1 also has all of the recent security advisories 
>> patched as well. Although it is interesting to note that downgrading to 
>> Xen 4.1.2 made no difference to write speeds.
> Not surprising at all, considering that the hypervisor is only a passive
> library for all PV I/O purposes. You're likely hunting for a kernel side
> regression (and hence the mentioning of the hypervisor version as
> the main factor in the subject is probably misleading).
>
> Jan

Further to this, do try to verify if your disk driver has changed
recently to use >0 order page allocations for DMA.  If it has, then
speed will be much slower as there will now be the swiotlb cpu-copy
overhead.

~Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-20  2:10 4.2.1: Poor write performance for DomU Steven Haigh
2013-02-20  8:26 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-02-20  8:49   ` Steven Haigh
2013-02-20  9:49     ` Steven Haigh
2013-02-20 10:12       ` Jan Beulich
2013-02-20 11:06         ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2013-02-20 11:08           ` Steven Haigh
2013-02-20 12:48             ` Andrew Cooper
2013-02-20 13:18             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-03-08 20:42               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-08  8:54       ` Steven Haigh
2013-03-08  9:43         ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-08  9:46           ` Steven Haigh
2013-03-08  9:54             ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-03-08 20:49         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-08 22:30           ` Steven Haigh
2013-03-11 13:30             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-11 13:37               ` Steven Haigh
2013-03-12 13:04                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-12 14:08                   ` Steven Haigh
     [not found]                   ` <514EA337.7030303@crc.id.au>
     [not found]                     ` <514EA6B0.8010504@crc.id.au>
     [not found]                       ` <514EA741.7050403@crc.id.au>
2013-03-24  9:10                         ` Steven Haigh
2013-03-24  9:54                           ` Steven Haigh
2013-03-25  2:21                           ` Steven Haigh
2013-08-20 16:48                             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-08-20 18:25                               ` Steven Haigh
2013-09-05  8:28                               ` Steven Haigh
2013-09-06 13:33                                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-06 23:06                                   ` Steven Haigh
2013-09-06 23:37                                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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