Re: [Xen-devel] memory performance 20% degradation in DomU -- Sisu

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 10:46 -0500, Sisu Xi wrote:


> Can you be more specific about the highest performance modes of the
> CPU? For all the experiments, I disabled hyperthreading and frequency
> scaling, so CPU should work at a constant speed.
> 
It was about TurboBoost (or whatever it's called) mode:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Boost

Some more info on this old blog post:
 http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/11/29/baremetal-vs-xen-vs-kvm-redux/

If you're completely disabling cpufreq via BIOS, I'd say this is ruled
out, but I can't be 100% sure. Also, that should be fixed in recent
enough Xen and Dom0 kernel.

Dario

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