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Re: [Xen-users] New binary release of GPL PV drivers for Windows

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] New binary release of GPL PV drivers for Windows
From: Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:08:32 +0100
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Hi Pasi,

I wasn't able to get Windows XP Professional x64 running with gplpv until
James released 0.8.0 if his great drivers.

So my answer is a bit delayed:

Equipment: core2 duo, 2,66GHz, Areca PCI-X Raid 6 over 8 disks


System is running Xen 3.2.0 64bit, dom0 is 2.6.18.8

Tested HVM domU is running XP Pro x64, Version 2003, SP 2, tested with iometer 
2006-07-27 stable.

--- Disk/IO using a gplpv'd disk:

pattern: 4k, 50% read, 50% write

        total iops:             ~14180
                read            ~7045-7065
                write           ~7025-7045
        total MB/s:             ~55
                read            ~27.5
                write           ~27.5 (looks like 50%...)

        avg IO response time:   ~0.071 ms
        max IO response time:   ~19.438 ms
        cpu utilization:        0% (??)

pattern: 32k, 50% read, 50% write

        total iops:             ~6900
                read            ~3435
                write           ~3450
        total MB/s:             ~215
                read            ~107.5
                write           ~107.5

        avg IO response time:   ~0.145 ms
        max IO response time:   ~21.525 ms
        cpu utilization:        ~5.52%


pure read operations with 32k pattern shows about 280 MB/s throughput
pure write operation with 512B pattern shows about 8.5 MB/s througput


--- Disk/IO using a QEMU disk:

pattern: 4k, 50% read, 50% write

        total iops:             ~3650
                read            ~1828
                write           ~1790
        total MB/s:             ~14
                read            ~7
                write           ~7

        avg IO response time:   ~0.276 ms
        max IO response time:   ~55.242 ms
        cpu utilization:        98.7%

pattern: 32k, 50% read, 50% write

        total iops:             ~3064
                read            ~1370-1390
                write           ~1360
        total MB/s:             ~84
                read            ~42-44
                write           ~40-42

        avg IO response time:   ~0.387 ms
        max IO response time:   ~77.450 ms
        cpu utilization:        ~76.8%


pure read operations with 32k pattern shows about 94 MB/s throughput
pure write operation with 512B pattern shows about 1.8 MB/s througput



--- (filebased) disk IO at dom0 (random, using dbench):

        10 workers on ext3,defaults: ~660 MB/s
        10 workers on xfs,defaults: ~620 MB/s

hdparm shows 3.3 GB/s cached and 366 MB/s buffered



Pasi Kärkkäinen schrieb:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:22:55AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:21:41PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:30:51PM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
If someone knows a Windows Benchmarking Suite, I'll do real tests. I know my
recent tests are not comparable to any value, but I'm a little bit handycapped
on windows ;)

You could use IOmeter http://www.iometer.org. It's a widely used disk
benchmarking tool on Windows.

It's easy to run benchmarks using different requests sizes, different number
of outstanding io's etc..

With small requests sizes (512 bytes or 4k) you can measure how many IOPS
(IO operations per second) you can get, and with big request sizes (64+ kB)
you can measure how much throughput you can get..

Changing the number of outstanding IO's means how many IO operations are
active at the same time (optimal values depends on the storage used, and on
the queue depth of the hardware, drivers and kernel).
Note that IOmeter wants to use raw disk devices, so don't create any
partitions or format the disk before using IOmeter.


And please share your benchmarking results :)

-- Pasi


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