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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alec Istomin <alec@openvz.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vCPU scalability for linux VMs
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:43:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE12FB4.1090303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1815416666.20100504184534@istomin.de>

On 05/05/2010 04:45 AM, Alec Istomin wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>   Reaching out with a non-development question, sorry if it's not
>   appropriate here.
>
>   I'm looking for a way to improve Linux SMP VMs performance under KVM.
>
>   My preliminary results show that single vCPU Linux VMs perform up to 10
>   times better than 4vCPU Linux VMs (consolidated performance of 8 VMs on
>   8 core pre-Nehalem server). I suspect that I'm missing something major
>   and look for any means that can help improve SMP VMs performance.
>
>
>    

So you have a total of 32 vcpus on 8 cores?  This is known to be 
problematic.  You may see some improvement by enabling hyperthreading.

There is ongoing work to improve this.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  1:45 vCPU scalability for linux VMs Alec Istomin
2010-05-05  8:43 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-05-05 16:56   ` Alec Istomin
     [not found] ` <AANLkTinDKDV3vwLiZzmMC6C4cjOnXT1H-joJ4rcR3vgA@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-05 17:27   ` Fwd: " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-05-05 19:31     ` Alec Istomin
2010-05-06  5:53       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-05-06  7:58         ` Alec Istomin

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