Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-07 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: > I'm thinking it's either the kernel version or, like the > user states, maybe it's something with HyperThreading. Hyperthreading is off on the machines where this occurs. Since the problem seems to occur handline timer interrupts, this could b

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-07 Thread Johnn Tan
Daniel de Kok wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: What error messages are you seeing? On one of my machines, I have four domU's (kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen), each with 4 VCPUs. I don't see any errors in any of the domU's dmesg. But /proc/cpuinfo shows they are each using

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-07 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: > What error messages are you seeing? On one of my machines, I > have four domU's (kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen), each with 4 > VCPUs. I don't see any errors in any of the domU's dmesg. > But /proc/cpuinfo shows they are each using all 4 CPUs. S

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Johnn Tan
Daniel de Kok wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:55 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: Assigning all the VCPUs. Having more than one vcpu currently emits non-fatal error messages, at least with the C5 domU kernel. I didn't have time to look into that yet. What error messages are you seeing? On one of my m

RE: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnn Tan > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:52 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen? > > Ross S. W. Walker wrot

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:55 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: > Assigning all the VCPUs. Having more than one vcpu currently emits non-fatal error messages, at least with the C5 domU kernel. I didn't have time to look into that yet. Though, it's probably useful for threaded applications if it works. Note th

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Johnn Tan
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Of course you need physical volumes but look for a storage solution that will also run as direct to disk as possible, maybe something based on the newer SATA/SAS where the RAID logic is built into the enclosure and a plain SATA/SAS card is in the server which can be activ

RE: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnn Tan > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:56 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen? > > Just wondering if t

[CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Johnn Tan
Just wondering if there was a howto or other URL that explains what is needed to achieve "near native" performance on a xen domU -- for this purpose, I am thinking about a single domU running on a physical server, in comparison to that same physical server running the same kernel but non-xenif