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

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

Any progress on the status of this post?
All in place for publication?
Lars

On 25/05/2014 15:17, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2014, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> > On 23 May 2014, at 17:27, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > you should generally scale the Y axis so that the threshold of significance
> > is obvious to the reader.
> You are right, that is a good idea, I'll make the change.
>
>
> > In this case, it's at 0.8 (0.8 what? percent? relative to?)
> Percentage of native performance, it is written right at the beginning
> of the benchmark chapter.
>
>
> > If it's not a significant result, then also explain that somewhere in the text 
> > so the reader knows the implication.  But it's better to fix the graph itself 
> > so that it's self-evident...
> It is written right before "FIO".
>
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