Re: Third level VSE

2009-05-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote: Take a look at Overhead Deltas for VSE Releases which is page 5 of the following PDF: You're probably a bit confused about the overhead that OP was talking about. The overhead deltas is the internal (additional) VSE

Re: Third level VSE

2009-05-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote: Take a look at Overhead Deltas for VSE Releases which is page 5 of the following PDF: You're probably a bit confused about the overhead

Re: Third level VSE

2009-05-04 Thread Tom Duerbusch
2.3 doesn't have the Turbo dispatcher on by default. So, only one engine is used. But when you turn on Turbo dispatcher, then you also have additional overhead (per the foils). I do wonder if the second level VM and the third level VSE have all processors available to then (with turbo

Re: Third level VSE

2009-05-01 Thread Tom Duerbusch
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:42 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE And what are the inhibitors that prevent you from running VSE 2.3 directly under

Re: Third level VSE

2009-05-01 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marcelo_Fazzito?=
discarded the idea to work in a second level VM the third level VSE . At the same time we migrated from ACF/2 to Top Secret in the VSE/ESA and were ready to go for z/VSE. We have half of the VSE´s in z/VSE 3.1 and stopped because the CPU incr ease from VSE 2.3 to zVSE 3.1 was between 15 and 20 percent

Re: Third level VSE

2009-05-01 Thread Tom Duerbusch
and then to 5.3. We run in a 9672, z890 and now in a z9. It is easy to upgrade VM releases, but we spent three years migrating from ACF/2 to Top Secret as directed ( forced ) by CA. This was the real problem but I discarded the idea to work in a second level VM the third level VSE. At the same time we

Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello listers, Before I begin, yes I know third level will cost us. Since SIE doesn't ge t down to the VSE we do not benefit from that and all CPU has to be emulate d. We have moved an old VM/ESA 2.2 with VSE 2.3 to a new z890 machine. Obviously this level of VM can't run on zseries so we have

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Kris Buelens
Avoid privileged instructions, such as IO and paging. Here VM's Minidisk cache can help to avoid I/O. You'd cache at the highest level, that is use VSE caching as much as possible, then VM/ESA's; you'd turn off MDC in z/VM, it is of no use to have two MDC levels. Have you looked at a performance

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Kris, The guest runs with attached DASD so MDC is not applicable in this case. It doesn't look like IO is the problem here. But obviously any command processed in the guest will cause double the load in the host VM. So I do agree to avoid as much as possible. I don't know if MDC in the

AW: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Fritz, Wilhelm
:01 An: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Betreff: Re: Third level VSE Hello Kris, The guest runs with attached DASD so MDC is not applicable in this case. It doesn't look like IO is the problem here. But obviously any command processed in the guest will cause double the load in the host VM. So I do agree

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Dieltiens Geert
2009 12:01 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE Hello Kris, The guest runs with attached DASD so MDC is not applicable in this case. It doesn't look like IO is the problem here. But obviously any command processed in the guest will cause double the load in the host VM. So I

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Geert, Do you mean: attached to the VSE-guest or to the VM/ESA-guest? If attached to the VSE-guest: is there still a real performance benefit in attaching dasd to a 3rd level VSE-guest? Attached to the guest VM. I don't know if there would be any advantage in attaching to third level, other

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Kris Buelens
Only a subset of privileged instructions require intervention from VM hence huge overhead for 3'th level VSE. MOVE kind instructions for example would ran at native speed, no matter how deed the SIE instruction is nested. Driving IO is the most obvious area that require VM intervention. Avoiding

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Dieltiens Geert
...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen Sent: woensdag 29 april 2009 13:51 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE Geert, Do you mean: attached to the VSE-guest or to the VM/ESA-guest? If attached to the VSE-guest: is there still a real performance benefit in attaching

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
Berry van Sleeuwen wrote: But would that also boost non-IO load? I expect the problem is CPU load in some stupid program. In that case any MDC wouldn't help me for that. The only advantage would be an improvement of the batch processing. Then engage a performance monitor under VSE, or

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 04/29/2009 at 08:17 EDT, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: Only a subset of privileged instructions require intervention from VM hence huge overhead for 3'th level VSE. MOVE kind instructions for example would ran at native speed, no matter how deed the SIE instruction

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen Sent: woensdag 29 april 2009 13:51 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE Geert, Do you mean: attached to the VSE-guest or to the VM/ESA-guest? If attached to the VSE-guest

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: An unassisted SIE instruction is trapped by the underlying z/VM system and trimmed to reflect what the underlying z/VM system knows about the guest who issued the SIE.  Then that underlying z/VM issues a SIE.  With

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
And what are the inhibitors that prevent you from running VSE 2.3 directly under z/VM 5.4? I have VSE 2.3.2 running on z/VM 5.2 on a z/890. I've been toying with the idea of upgrading VM this summer. Are there other products that are running under VM/ESA 2.2 that need to be on the same VM

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Edward M Martin
...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:42 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE And what are the inhibitors that prevent you from running VSE 2.3 directly under z/VM 5.4? I have VSE 2.3.2 running on z/VM 5.2 on a z/890. I've been

Re: Third level VSE

2009-04-29 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE And what are the inhibitors that prevent you from running VSE 2.3 directly under z/VM 5.4? I have VSE 2.3.2 running on z/VM 5.2 on a z/890. I've been toying with the idea of upgrading VM this summer. Are there other products