RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 13:19 -0800, Kayvan Sylvan wrote:
> For the Montecito chip, running the RE-AIM7 compute workload, we have
> the following preliminary summary:
> 
> Native vs. Xen performace
> ----------------------------------
> At 2-CPU, the overhead was 13%.
> At 4-CPU, the overhead was 17%
> At 8-cpu, overhead was 28%
> At 16-cpu, the overhead was 173%
> 
> Not quite sure why the performance dropped off so radically in the 16-CPU 
> case.
> 
> I'm trying to get equivalent numbers for x86_64 and the Montvale chip.

   Very interesting.  Are you sizing the guest memory based on vCPU
count?  This is for HVM domUs?  Do you also plan to test PV domUs?
Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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