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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws,
	avi@qumranet.com
Subject: Re: First performance numbers
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:30:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D4524A.80902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080919214824.GA11410@amd.com>

Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Ok, here are some performance numbers for nested svm. I ran kernbench -M
> on a virtual machine with 4G RAM and 1 VCPU (since nesting SMP guests
> do currently not work). I measured simple virtualization with a shadow
> paging guest on bare metal and within a nested guest (same guest image)
> on a nested paging enabled first level guest.
>
>                  | Shadow Guest (100%) | Nested Guest (X)  | X
> -----------------+---------------------+-------------------+--------
> Elapsed Time     | 553.244 (1.21208)   | 1185.95 (20.0365) | 214.363%
> User Time        | 407.728 (0.987279)  | 520.434 (8.55643) | 127.642% 
> System Time      | 144.828 (0.480645)  | 664.528 (11.6648) | 458.839%
> Percent CPU      | 99 (0)              | 99 (0)            | 100.000%
> Context Switches | 98265.2 (183.001)   | 220015 (3302.74)  | 223.899%
> Sleeps           | 49397.8 (31.0274)   | 49460.2 (364.84)  | 100.126%
>
> So we have an overall slowdown in the first nesting level of more than
> 50%. Mostly because we spend so much time in the system level. Seems
> there is some work to do for performance improvements :-)
>
>   

Do you have kvm_stat output for the two cases?  Also interesting to run 
kvm_stat on both guest and host.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-17 13:41 [PATCH 0/9] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add CPUID feature flag for SVM v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41   ` [PATCH 2/9] Clean up VINTR setting v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41     ` [PATCH 3/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41       ` [PATCH 4/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41         ` [PATCH 5/9] Implement hsave v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41           ` [PATCH 6/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41             ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMRUN handler v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41               ` [PATCH 8/9] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-17 13:41                 ` [PATCH 9/9] Allow setting the SVME bit v3 Alexander Graf
2008-09-19 15:59               ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMRUN handler v3 Joerg Roedel
2008-09-25 17:32                 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-25 17:37                   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-25 20:00                     ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-25 21:22                       ` joro
2008-09-27 12:59                         ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-27 12:58                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-25 18:47         ` [PATCH 4/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v3 Joerg Roedel
2008-09-25 19:55           ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-25 21:27             ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-26  9:01               ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-27 12:55                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-27 12:52           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v3 Joerg Roedel
2008-09-19 14:39   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-19 15:56   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-10-15 17:07     ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-19 21:48 ` First performance numbers Joerg Roedel
2008-09-20  1:30   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-20  6:55     ` Joerg Roedel

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