Re: [Xen-devel] 4.2.1: Poor write performance for DomU.

[Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/02/2013 7:26 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On 20/02/13 03:10, Steven Haigh wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Firstly, please CC me in to any replies as I'm not a subscriber these days.
> >
> > I've been trying to debug a problem with Xen 4.2.1 where I am unable to
> > achieve more than ~50Mb/sec sustained sequential write to a disk. The
> > DomU is configured as such:
> Since you mention 4.2.1 explicitly, is this a performance regression
> from previous versions? (4.2.0 or the 4.1 branch)
This is actually a very good question. I've reinstalled my older 
packages of Xen 4.1.3 back on the system. Rebooting into the new 
hypervisor, then starting the single DomU again. Ran bonnie++ again on 
the DomU:
Version  1.96       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- 
--Random-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- 
--Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP 
/sec %CP
zeus.crc.id.au   2G   658  97 54893   9 40845  10  1056  97 280453  33 
561.2  13
Latency             27145us     426ms     257ms   31900us   24701us 
222ms
Version  1.96       ------Sequential Create------ --------Random 
Create--------
zeus.crc.id.au      -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- 
-Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP 
/sec %CP
                 16 19281  52 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 24435  66 +++++ +++ 
+++++ +++
Latency             22860us     182us     706us   14803us      28us 
300us

Still around 50Mb/sec - so this doesn't seem to be a regression, but 
something else?

> > ~50Mb/sec write, ~267Mb/sec read. Not so awesome.
> We are currently working on improving the speed of pv block drivers, I
> will look into this difference between the read/write speed, but I would
> guess this is due to the size of the request/ring.
I would assume this would be in the DomU kernel?

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