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From: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: virtio disk and network performances
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:45:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F867F0.2020909@cnaf.infn.it> (raw)


Hello,
I am little bit disappointed about virtio perormance.

speaking about virtio disk performance I get about the same performances 
of non-virtio quests.
I am using centos 5.3 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5  as host and the same centos 
5.3 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 as kvm
guests with virtio backported to CentOS 5.2 kernel

virtio_net             47169  0
virtio_blk             41417  3
virtio_pci             41921  0
virtio_ring            37441  1 virtio_pci
virtio                 39365  3 virtio_net,virtio_blk,virtio_pci


Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      9.1G  1.5G  7.2G  17% /
/dev/vda1              99M   19M   76M  20% /boot
tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm


I use bonnie++ for I/O tests and I got closely the same results for 
virtio guests and non-virtio guests.
Anyone experienced something different ?

Speaking about virtio net performance I get good results but they are 
not symmetric.

on a virtio guest I get ~1Gb/s inbound and ~600Mb/s outbound

without virtio I get ~600Gb/s inbound and ~200MB/s outbound

anyone has any idea how come hte performance is not symmetric ?

thanks

Rick


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