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RE: [Xen-users] Re: Xen Disk I/O performance vs nativeperformance:XenI/O is definitely super super super slow


  • To: "Olivier B." <xen.list@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "DOGUET Emmanuel" <Emmanuel.DOGUET@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:57:38 +0100
  • Cc: xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:59:02 -0800
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-users] Re: Xen Disk I/O performance vs nativeperformance:XenI/O is definitely super super super slow

If you have differences between ext3 and ext4, it can be due to the FS cache?
In your tests what are the memory of dom0 and domU?
Very strange our write problem to RAID harware :/

For my tests, I use "standard" redhat kernel.


  Bye.

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
>bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Olivier B.
>Envoyé : mercredi 25 février 2009 20:47
>Cc : xen-users
>Objet : Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen Disk I/O performance vs
>nativeperformance:XenI/O is definitely super super super slow
>
>I did some tests to on some servers ( time dd if=/dev/zero of=TEST bs=4k
>count=512000 )
>
>First server : raid 1 hardware with a PCI 32bits 3ware card.
>dom0 (ext3) :    39MB/s
>domU (ext3) :     1.4MB/s !!!
>domU (ext4) :    40MB/s
>
>Second server : raid 1 software with 2 SATA disks
>dom0 (ext3) :     96MB/s
>domU (ext3) :     91MB/s
>domU (ext4) :     94MB/s
>
>Note : I use vanilla kernel on DomU.
>
>So :
>- I see a big write problem from domU on hardware raid
>- the writeback feature of ext4 seem to "erase" this problem
>
>Olivier
>
>DOGUET Emmanuel a écrit :
>> I have finished my tests on 3 servers. On each we loose some bandwidth
>with XEN. On our 10 platform ... We always loose some bandwidth, I think
>it's normal. Just the bench method who must differ?
>>
>> I have made bench (write only) between hardware and software RAID under
>XEN (see attachment).
>>
>> Linux Software RAID is always faster than HP Raid. I must try too the
>"512MB+Cache Write" option for the HP Raid.
>>
>> So my problems seem to be here.
>>
>>
>> -------------------------
>> HP DL 380
>> Quad core
>> -------------------------
>> Test: dd if=/dev/zero of=TEST bs=4k count=1250000
>>
>>
>>
>>           Hardware     Hardware    Software     Software
>>            RAID 5     RAID 5      RAID 5       RAID 5
>>           4 x 146G   8 x 146G   4 x 146G     8 x 146G
>> dom0
>> (1024MB,
>>  1 cpu)     32MB        22MB        88MB (*)    144MB (*)
>>
>> domU
>> ( 512MB,
>>  1 cpu)      8MB        5MB         34MB        31MB
>>
>> domU
>>  (4096MB,
>>  2 cpu)     --          7MB         51MB        35MB
>>
>>
>>
>> *: don't understand this difference.
>>
>>
>> This performance seems to be good for you?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>       Best regards.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>> De : DOGUET Emmanuel
>>> Envoyé : mardi 24 février 2009 17:50
>>> À : DOGUET Emmanuel; Fajar A. Nugraha
>>> Cc : xen-users; Joris Dobbelsteen
>>> Objet : RE: [Xen-users] Re: Xen Disk I/O performance vs
>>> nativeperformance:Xen I/O is definitely super super super slow
>>>
>>> For resuming :
>>>
>>> on RAID 0
>>>
>>>     dom0: 80MB      domU:   56MB                    Loose: 30M
>>>
>>> on RAID1
>>>
>>>     dom0: 80MB      domU:  55 MB            Loose: 32%
>>>
>>> on RAID5:
>>>
>>>     dom0: 30MB      domU:   9MB                     Loose: 70%
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So loose seem to be "exponantial" ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>>> De : xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de
>>>> DOGUET Emmanuel
>>>> Envoyé : mardi 24 février 2009 14:22
>>>> À : Fajar A. Nugraha
>>>> Cc : xen-users; Joris Dobbelsteen
>>>> Objet : RE: [Xen-users] Re: Xen Disk I/O performance vs
>>>> nativeperformance:Xen I/O is definitely super super super slow
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have made another test on another server (DL 380)
>>>>
>>>> And same thing!
>>>>
>>>> I'm always use this test :
>>>>
>>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=TEST bs=4k count=1250000
>>>>
>>>> (be careful with memory cache)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TEST WITH 2 RAID 5 (include system on RAID 5, 3x146G + 3x146G)
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> dom0: 1GO, 1CPU, 2 RAID 5
>>>>
>>>>        rootvg(c0d0p1):         4596207616 bytes (4.6 GB)
>>>> copied, 158.284 seconds, 29.0 MB/s
>>>>        datavg(c0d1p1):         5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB)
>>>> copied, 155.414 seconds, 32.9 MB/s
>>>>
>>>> domU: 512M, 1CPU         on System LVM/RAID5 (rootvg)
>>>>
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 576.923 seconds, 8.9 MB/s
>>>>
>>>> domU: 512M, 1CPU         on DATA LVM/RAID5 (datavg)
>>>>
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 582.611 seconds, 8.8 MB/s
>>>>
>>>> domU: 512M, 1 CPU on same RAID without LVM
>>>>
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 808.957 seconds, 6.3 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TEST WITH RAID 0 (dom0 system on RAID 1)
>>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> dom0   1GO RAM 1CPU
>>>>
>>>>        on system (RAID1):
>>>>        i3955544064 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 57.4314 seconds, 68.9 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>        on direct HD (RAID 0 of cssiss), no LVM
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 62.5497 seconds, 81.9 MB/s
>>>>
>>>> dom0   4GO RAM 4CPU
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> domU:  4GO, 4 CPU
>>>>
>>>>        on direct HD (RAID 0), no LVM.
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 51.2684 seconds, 99.9 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> domU: 4GO, 4CPU  same HD but ONE LVM on it
>>>>
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 51.5937 seconds, 99.2 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TEST with only ONE RAID 5 (6 x 146G)
>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> dom0 : 1024MB - 1CPUI (RHEL 5.3)
>>>>
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 231.113 seconds, 22.2 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 512MB - 1 CPU
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 1039.42 seconds, 4.9 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 512MB - 1 CPU - ONLY 1 VDB [LVM] (root, no swap)
>>>>
>>>>        (too slow ..stopped :P)
>>>>        4035112960 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 702.883 seconds, 5.7 MB/s
>>>>
>>>> 512MB - 1 CPU - On a file (root, no swap)
>>>>
>>>>        1822666752 bytes (1.8 GB) copied, 2753.91 seconds, 662 kB/s
>>>>
>>>> 4GB - 2 CPU
>>>>        5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 698.681 seconds, 7.3 MB/s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>>>> De : Fajar A. Nugraha [mailto:fajar@xxxxxxxxx]
>>>>> Envoyé : samedi 14 février 2009 06:23
>>>>> À : DOGUET Emmanuel
>>>>> Cc : xen-users
>>>>> Objet : Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen Disk I/O performance vs native
>>>>> performance:Xen I/O is definitely super super super slow
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/2/13 DOGUET Emmanuel <Emmanuel.DOGUET@xxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have mount domU partition on dom0 for testing and it's OK.
>>>>>> But same partiton on domU side is slow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Strange.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Strange indeed. At least that ruled-out hardware problems :)
>>>>> Could try with a "simple" domU?
>>>>> - 1 vcpu
>>>>> - 512 M memory
>>>>> - only one vbd
>>>>>
>>>>> this should isolate whether or not the problem is on your particular
>>>>> domU (e.g. some config parameter actually make domU slower).
>>>>>
>>>>> Your config file should have only few lines, like this
>>>>>
>>>>> memory = "512"
>>>>> vcpus=1
>>>>> disk = ['phy:/dev/rootvg/bdd-root,xvda1,w' ]
>>>>> vif = [ "mac=00:22:64:A1:56:BF,bridge=xenbr0" ]
>>>>> vfb =['type=vnc']
>>>>> bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fajar
>>>>>
>>>>>
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