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From: Keith Coleman <list.keith@scaltro.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: windows domU disk performance graph comparing hvm vs stubdom vs pv drivers
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:14:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5411dbdc1002220914m2cf15fack76aed42a4fca1a32@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002221516330.2037@kaball-desktop>

On 2/22/10, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Keith Coleman wrote:
>> I am posting this to xen-devel instead of -users because it paints an
>> incomplete picture that shouldn't be the basis for deciding how to run
>> production systems.
>>
>> This graph shows the performance under a webserver disk IO workload at
>> different queue depths. It compares the 4 main IO methods for windows
>> guests that will be available in the upcoming xen 4.0.0 and 3.4.3
>> releases: pure HVM, stub domains, gplpv drivers, and xcp winpv
>> drivers.
>>
>> The gplpv and xcp winpv drivers have comparable performance with gplpv
>> being slightly faster. Both pv drivers are considerably faster than
>> pure hvm or stub domains. Stub domain performance was about even with
>> HVM which is lower than we were expecting. We tried a different cpu
>> pinning in "Stubdom B" with little impact.
>>
>
> What disk backend are you using?

phy, LV


Keith Coleman

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19 22:41 windows domU disk performance graph comparing hvm vs stubdom vs pv drivers Keith Coleman
2010-02-20  0:08 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-20  0:50   ` Keith Coleman
2010-02-20  1:46     ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-22 16:33 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-02-22 17:14   ` Keith Coleman [this message]
2010-02-22 17:27     ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-02-22 21:13       ` Keith Coleman
2010-02-23 13:14         ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-02-23 14:44           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-23 19:39             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-02-23 20:03               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-23 20:47               ` Marco Sinhoreli
2010-02-23 21:06                 ` Keith Coleman
2010-02-23 20:11             ` Keith Coleman
2010-02-23 19:38           ` Pasi Kärkkäinen

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