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

[Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the Montecito chip, running the RE-AIM7 compute workload, we have the 
following preliminary summary:

Native vs. Xen performace
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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.

---Kayvan

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@xxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:44 PM
To: Kayvan Sylvan
Cc: tgingold@xxxxxxx; xen-ia64-devel
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 08:20 -0800, Kayvan Sylvan wrote:
> We (myself and my colleagues at Platform Solutions) are working on
> this exactly.
>
> We will send some results to the list soon, but I think we can confirm
> Alex's experience with HVM configurations. Our preliminary results are
> about 13-15% overhead.
>
> I am racking a Montvale system in about 15 minutes to do some more
> benchmarks today.

Hi Kayvan,

   That's good news.  If you get Montecito vs Montvale results that
would be interesting too.   Does anyone have suggestions for other easy
to run and setup benchmarks?  Kernel builds seem to be fairly
virtualization friendly.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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