From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] win7 bad i/o performance, high insn_emulation and exists
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:42:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220204222.GH29601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F429BC3.9000909@dlh.net>
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:15:15PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 20.02.2012 19:40, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:17:55PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I came a across an issue with a Windows 7 (32-bit) as well as with a
> >>Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit) guest.
> >>
> >>If I transfer a file from the VM via CIFS or FTP to a remote machine,
> >>i get very poor read performance (around 13MB/s). The VM peaks at 100%
> >>cpu and I see a lot of insn_emulations and all kinds of exists in kvm_stat
> >>
> >>efer_reload 0 0
> >>exits 2260976 79620
> >>fpu_reload 6197 11
> >>halt_exits 114734 5011
> >>halt_wakeup 111195 4876
> >>host_state_reload 1499659 60962
> >>hypercalls 0 0
> >>insn_emulation 1577325 58488
> >>insn_emulation_fail 0 0
> >>invlpg 0 0
> >>io_exits 943949 40249
> >Hmm, too many of those.
> >
> >>irq_exits 108679 5434
> >>irq_injections 236545 10788
> >>irq_window 7606 246
> >>largepages 672 5
> >>mmio_exits 460020 16082
> >>mmu_cache_miss 119 0
> >>mmu_flooded 0 0
> >>mmu_pde_zapped 0 0
> >>mmu_pte_updated 0 0
> >>mmu_pte_write 13474 9
> >>mmu_recycled 0 0
> >>mmu_shadow_zapped 141 0
> >>mmu_unsync 0 0
> >>nmi_injections 0 0
> >>nmi_window 0 0
> >>pf_fixed 22803 35
> >>pf_guest 0 0
> >>remote_tlb_flush 239 2
> >>request_irq 0 0
> >>signal_exits 0 0
> >>tlb_flush 20933 0
> >>
> >>If I run the same VM with a Ubuntu 10.04.4 guest I get around 60MB/s
> >>throughput. The kvm_stats look a lot more sane.
> >>
> >>efer_reload 0 0
> >>exits 6132004 17931
> >>fpu_reload 19863 3
> >>halt_exits 264961 3083
> >>halt_wakeup 236468 2959
> >>host_state_reload 1104468 3104
> >>hypercalls 0 0
> >>insn_emulation 1417443 7518
> >>insn_emulation_fail 0 0
> >>invlpg 0 0
> >>io_exits 869380 2795
> >>irq_exits 253501 2362
> >>irq_injections 616967 6804
> >>irq_window 201186 2161
> >>largepages 1019 0
> >>mmio_exits 205268 0
> >>mmu_cache_miss 192 0
> >>mmu_flooded 0 0
> >>mmu_pde_zapped 0 0
> >>mmu_pte_updated 0 0
> >>mmu_pte_write 7440546 0
> >>mmu_recycled 0 0
> >>mmu_shadow_zapped 259 0
> >>mmu_unsync 0 0
> >>nmi_injections 0 0
> >>nmi_window 0 0
> >>pf_fixed 38529 30
> >>pf_guest 0 0
> >>remote_tlb_flush 761 1
> >>request_irq 0 0
> >>signal_exits 0 0
> >>tlb_flush 0 0
> >>
> >>I use virtio-net (with vhost-net) and virtio-blk. I tried disabling
> >>hpet (which basically illiminated the mmio_exits, but does not
> >>increase
> >>performance) and also commit (39a7a362e16bb27e98738d63f24d1ab5811e26a8
> >>) - no improvement.
> >>
> >>My commandline:
> >>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm-1.0 -netdev
> >>type=tap,id=guest8,script=no,downscript=no,ifname=tap0,vhost=on
> >>-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=guest8,mac=52:54:00:ff:00:d3 -drive format=host_device,file=/dev/mapper/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-eeef4e007-a8a9f3818674f2fc-lieven-windows7-vc-r80788,if=virtio,cache=none,aio=native
> >>-m 2048 -smp 2 -monitor tcp:0:4001,server,nowait -vnc :1 -name
> >>lieven-win7-vc -boot order=dc,menu=off -k de -pidfile
> >>/var/run/qemu/vm-187.pid -mem-path /hugepages -mem-prealloc -cpu
> >>host -rtc base=localtime -vga std -usb -usbdevice tablet -no-hpet
> >>
> >>What further information is needed to debug this further?
> >>
> >Which kernel version (looks like something recent)?
> 2.6.38 with kvm-kmod 3.2
> >Which host CPU (looks like something old)?
> why? i guess its (quite) new.
>
Yes, it is. I misread the kvm_stat data and thought that CPU does not
have ept, but it does.
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 44
> model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz
> stepping : 2
> cpu MHz : 1596.000
> cache size : 12288 KB
> physical id : 1
> siblings : 6
> core id : 10
> cpu cores : 6
> apicid : 52
> initial apicid : 52
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 11
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
> syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts
> rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64
> monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1
> sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm arat dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept
> vpid
> bogomips : 2254.43
> clflush size : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>
> >Which Windows' virtio drivers are you using?
> i used to use 0.1-16 and today also tried 0.1-22 from
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/
> >Take a trace like described here http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing
> >(with -no-hpet please).
> will prepare this.
> >Try to use -cpu host,+x2apic. It may help Linux guest performance.
> Thanks, it improved throughput a little while lowering the
> cpu usage. Windows does not support this?
>
Not yet. It will support something similar when qemu will have hyper-v
support.
--
Gleb.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-20 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-20 18:17 [Qemu-devel] win7 bad i/o performance, high insn_emulation and exists Peter Lieven
2012-02-20 18:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-20 19:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-20 19:24 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-20 19:59 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-20 20:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-21 10:50 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-21 10:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-21 10:59 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-21 11:00 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-21 11:16 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-21 11:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-21 12:05 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-21 13:56 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2012-02-21 14:10 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-21 16:48 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2012-02-21 18:21 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-20 19:15 ` Peter Lieven
2012-02-20 20:42 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
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