Re: Performance difference between Xen versions

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>]

>>> On 02.05.11 at 08:41, Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 06:31, "Juergen Gross" <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Is there any easy explanation for this? Both Xen versions are from SLES
>>>> (SLES11 or SLES11 SP1).
>>> I think cpufreq handling was off by default in 3.3, and is on by
>>> default on 4.0. Try turning this off, or using the performance
>>> governor.
>> Jan, you got it! With cpufreq=none Xen 4.0 has more or less the same numbers
>> as 3.3. Now I wonder why the default is so much slower. I looks as if the
>> hypervisor would run at a lower speed. I can't believe it should behave like
>> that!
> 
> It runs at lower frequency unless your test offers sufficient load over a
> long enough time period. Short microbenchmarks are probably finished before
> the frequency governor can react.

Correct. I generally found the default threshold of the ondemand
governor nor very suitable for optimal performance of short lived
jobs, and boot all of my systems with "cpufreq=xen:ondemand,threshold=20".

Jan