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[Xen-ia64-devel] HVM Multi-Processor Performance followup 
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Hi everyone,   A follow-up on the multiprocessor performance benchmark on
HVM guests.   We ran the RE-AIM7 benchmarks on a 5-cell (40 CPU) machine
and a single-cell 8-cpu NEC machine.   Here are the jobs per minute maximums.   You can see the drop in performance starts to get really bad
at about 9 CPUs and beyond.   Questions:   1.      
What can I do to help improve this situation? 2.      
Are there any other experiments I can run? 3.      
What tools/profilers will help to gather more data
here?   I am very interested in helping to solve this problem! Thanks
for your ideas and suggestions.   Best regards,   ---Kayvan     
 
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  |  | Xen performance comparison on
  5-Cell NEC machine (each cell with 4 dual-core Itaniums) |  
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  |  | CPUs | Native
  Jobs/Min | HVM
  Jobs/Min | Overhead |  |  |  |  
  |  | 1 | 2037 | 1791 | 12.08% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 2 | 4076 | 3615 | 11.31% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 3 | 6090 | 5221 | 14.27% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 4 | 8118 | 6839 | 15.76% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 5 | 10119 | 8404 | 16.95% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 6 | 12037 | 9949 | 17.35% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 7 | 14106 | 11095 | 21.35% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 8 | 15953 | 12360 | 22.52% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 9 | 18059 | 13201 | 26.90% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 10 | 20170 | 13742 | 31.87% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 11 | 21896 | 13694 | 37.46% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 12 | 24079 | 13331 | 44.64% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 13 | 25992 | 12374 | 52.39% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 14 | 28072 | 11684 | 58.38% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 15 | 29931 | 11032 | 63.14% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 16 | 31696 | 10451 | 67.03% |  |  |  |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | The guest OS was CentOS-4.6
  with 2GB of memory, |  |  |  |  
  |  | running under a Dom0 that was
  limited to 1 VCPU. |  |  |  |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  
  |  | Xen performance comparison on
  1-Cell NEC machine (4 dual core Itanium Montecito) |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | CPUs | Native
  Jobs/Min | HVM
  Jobs/Min | Overhead |  |  |  |  
  |  | 1 | 2037 | 1779 | 12.67% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 2 | 4067 | 3619 | 11.02% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 3 | 6097 | 5344 | 12.35% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 4 | 8112 | 7004 | 13.66% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 5 | 10145 | 8663 | 14.61% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 6 | 12023 | 10213 | 15.05% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 7 | 14083 | 11249 | 20.12% |  |  |  |  
  |  | 8 | 16182 | 12969 | 19.86% |  |  |  |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | The guest OS was CentOS-4.6
  with 2GB of memory, |  |  |  |  
  |  | running under a Dom0 that was
  limited to 1 VCPU. |  |  |  |  
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