Why do additional cores reduce performance?

2014-12-15 Thread Oleg Ovechko
Hi, I am novice to kvm/qemu, perhaps you can explain something to me. I pass-through sata controller with fakeraid. It works, but I am getting strange results during performance testing: A. Host Windows, 6 cores (no HT, turbo boost off): 6:23 (+- 10 secs) B. Host Windows, 1 CPU core (other are tu

Re: Why do additional cores reduce performance?

2014-12-16 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 16/12/2014 00:40, Oleg Ovechko wrote: > A. Host Windows, 6 cores (no HT, turbo boost off): 6:23 (+- 10 secs) > B. Host Windows, 1 CPU core (other are turned off in BIOS): 7:13 (+-10 secs) > C. Host 1 core, Guest Windows 1 core: 7:15 - same as B, no degradation > D. Host 6 cores, Guest Windows

Re: Why do additional cores reduce performance?

2014-12-16 Thread Oleg Ovechko
> What is your benchmark? I've tried different ways (CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64, ATTO Disk Banchmark v2.47) all give same result. The numbers I've provided in 1st mail are for 100G file copied over. I simply subtract stop and start times. 50 seconds is so huge difference (three sigma rule gives 10

Re: Why do additional cores reduce performance?

2014-12-16 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 16/12/2014 17:22, Oleg Ovechko wrote: >> What is your benchmark? > > I've tried different ways (CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64, ATTO Disk > Banchmark v2.47) all give same result. All are run on the AHCI passthrough disk(s), right? > When everything is enabled in BIOS it is 6:23 on real Windows v