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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 development update



On 03/04/13 00:48, Suravee Suthikulanit wrote:
On 4/2/2013 12:06 PM, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
On 4/2/2013 11:34 AM, Tim Deegan wrote:
At 16:42 +0100 on 02 Apr (1364920927), Jan Beulich wrote:
On 02.04.13 at 16:07, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
* AMD NPT performance regression after c/s 24770:7f79475d3de7
    owner: ?
    Reference: http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=135075376805215
This is supposedly fixed with the RTC changes Tim committed the
other day. Suravee, is that correct?
This is a separate problem.  IIRC the AMD XP perf issue is caused by the
emulation of LAPIC TPR accesses slowing down with Andres's p2m locking
patches.  XP doesn't have 'lazy IRQL' or support for CR8, so it takes a
_lot_ of vmexits for IRQL reads and writes.
Is there any tools or good ways to count the number of VMexit in Xen?

Tim/Jan,

I have used iperf benchmark to compare network performance (bandwidth)
between the two versions of the hypervisor:
1. good: 24769:730f6ed72d70
2. bad: 24770:7f79475d3de7

In the "bad" case, I am seeing that the network bandwidth has dropped
about 13-15%.

However, when I uses the xentrace utility to trace the number of VMEXIT,
I actually see about 25% more number of VMEXIT in the good case.  This
is inconsistent with the statement that Tim mentioned above.

I was going to say, what I remember from my little bit of investigation back in November, was that it had all the earmarks of micro-architectural "drag", which happens when the TLB or the caches can't be effective.

Suvaree, if you look at xenalyze, a microarchitectural "drag" looks like:
* fewer VMEXITs, but
* time for each vmexit takes longer

If you post the results of "xenalyze --svm-mode -s" for both traces, I can tell you what I see.

 -George

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