From: "Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)" <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Qemu-development List <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU throughput is down with SMP
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:19:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA4E2CA.5030606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDeFQcnC+0OAb0XgkYrSKNNmkUASRQJRifY_SL@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/30/2010 2:13 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)
> <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Code: Mainline QEMU (git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git)
>> Machine: LS21 blade.
>> Disk: Local disk through VirtIO.
>> Did not select any cache option. Defaulting to writethrough.
>>
>> Command tested:
>> 3 parallel instances of : dd if=/dev/zero of=/pmnt/my_pw bs=4k count=100000
>>
>> QEMU with smp=1
>> 19.3 MB/s + 19.2 MB/s + 18.6 MB/s = 57.1 MB/s
>>
>> QEMU with smp=4
>> 15.3 MB/s + 14.1 MB/s + 13.6 MB/s = 43.0 MB/s
>>
>> Is this expected?
>
> Did you configure with --enable-io-thread?
Yes I did.
>
> Also, try using dd oflag=direct to eliminate effects introduced by the
> guest page cache and really hit the disk.
With oflag=direct , I see no difference and the throughput is so slow and I
would not
expect to see any difference.
It is 225 kb/s for each thread either with smp=1 or with smp=4.
- JV
>
> Stefan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 0:50 [Qemu-devel] QEMU throughput is down with SMP Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)
2010-09-30 9:13 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-30 19:19 ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) [this message]
2010-10-01 8:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-01 13:38 ` Ryan Harper
2010-10-01 15:04 ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)
2010-10-01 15:09 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4CA4E2CA.5030606@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--to=jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
--cc=stefanha@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).