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From: Andreas Kinzler <ml-ak@posteo.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: serious performance regression in Xen 4.2.4 and 4.2.5
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:08:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E5C421.2060109@posteo.de> (raw)

Hello Xen developers,

since we use Xen for our production systems, I run many tests on Xen 
(stability/performance). One test now uncovered a serious performance 
regression when updating from Xen 4.2.3 to 4.2.x (with x>=4). To 
reproduce run a domU (HVM) and compile a kernel for example ("time make 
-j3"). Below are my results - compilation times more than double!

Is it my mistake or otherwise how could such a bug be unnoticed? Really 
wondering.
If it is really a regression, will it be fixed since the 4.2 branch is 
declared unsupported?

Regards Andreas

Xen 4.2.3, 3.10.44-el7-pvops0-ak3, Xeon E3-1230, compile in HVM
     real    2m58.371s
     user    5m11.580s
     sys     0m12.736s

Xen 4.2.4, 3.10.44-el7-pvops0-ak3, Xeon E3-1230, compile in HVM
     real    6m44.697s    (!!!)
     user    12m4.988s
     sys     0m33.916s

Xen 4.2.5, 3.10.44-el7-pvops0-ak3, Xeon E3-1230, compile in HVM
     real    6m27.998s    (!!!)
     user    11m42.664s
     sys     0m32.700s

             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-19 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-19 11:08 Andreas Kinzler [this message]
2015-02-19 11:20 ` serious performance regression in Xen 4.2.4 and 4.2.5 Andrew Cooper
2015-02-19 16:24   ` Andreas Kinzler
2015-02-19 13:08 ` Malcolm Crossley
2015-02-19 14:21   ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-19 14:26     ` Malcolm Crossley

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