Re: [Publicity] [blog DRAFT] How fast is Xen on ARM, really?

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 May 2014, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> It's worth pointing out that 'lower is better' in the captions more 
> prominently :-)

I'll do :)


> Or, could you label the Y axis of the graphs?  Any standard deviation 
> available to get a sense of variance across runs?

I'll see what I can do.


> The postgres benchmark left me wondering why x86 is so much faster -- is that 
> because it just had a better disk?

I don't think that results such as 0.4% or 0.1% are very significant.
As I wrote in the article, the overhead is so low in the disk benchmarks
that they only manage to demonstrate that one needs a fast SSD to really
show the virtualization overhead.


> 
> On 23 May 2014, at 15:13, Stefano Stabellini 
> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I wrote a blog post regarding Xen on ARM, Xen on x86 and KVM on x86
> > performances:
> > 
> > http://blog.xen.org/?p=9447&preview=true
> > 
> > Let me know what you think.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Stefano
> > 
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