Dor, I ran some netperf tests with your PV virtio drivers, along with some Xen PV cases and a few others for comparison. I thought you (and the list) might be interested in the numbers.
I am going to start looking for bottlenecks, unless you need help with the new hypercall updates. I'll re-run when that is available. Jim Tests were run with Netperf-2.4.3, TCP Socket buffers were 256k. All of the tests were run with netserver in the guest, netperf in the host/dom0. No bridge was used. Hardware: IBM HS21 blade Dual Xeon w/HT @ 1.6GHz, 4GB The host/Dom0 configuration: kvm.*: Host is 32 bit Ubuntu 7.04 server running Dor's 2.6.22-rc3 kernel. xen.*: Dom0 is 32 bit Ubuntu 7.04 server running the 2.6.18 kernel from xen3.1 The guest configurations: All guests/domUs are 512MB, 1 CPU kvm.rtl: (KVM with emulated RTL8029) Fedora 7 32 bit guest Standard 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 kernel kvm.pv: (KVM w/Dor's paravirt drivers) Fedora 7 32 bit guest running Dor's 2.6.22-rc3 kernel. xen.pv: (Xen paravirt) Ubuntu 7.04 server w/2.6.18-xen kernel xen.um: (Xen HVM with unmodified drivers) Ubuntu 7.04 server w/2.6.18-xen kernel, unmodified drivers compiled from xen3.1 kvm.lo: (Host loopback) TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE (Trans. Rate per sec) size kvm.rtl kvm.pv xen.pv xen.um kvm.lo 1 2191.47 9533.74 18052.37 13593.58 42400.73 64 2184.30 9518.13 17979.93 13557.98 42260.53 128 2177.52 9482.45 17940.08 13588.54 40983.90 256 2160.49 9465.97 17788.21 13492.42 41170.45 512 2130.99 9403.33 17655.11 13489.64 40765.26 1024 2074.85 9204.90 17293.06 13572.01 39437.78 2048 416.18 4750.41 12907.57 11571.07 37252.42 4096 265.22 3691.90 10990.67 9943.64 31905.03 8192 116.80 1892.25 8439.83 6604.64 24397.95 16384 92.06 1004.58 4535.86 3924.68 17460.30 TCP STREAM (Throughput 10^6bits/sec) size kvm.rtl kvm.pv xen.pv xen.um kvm.lo 2048 33.06 507.21 555.94 1442.38 5409.73 4096 33.16 526.75 848.26 2359.42 6152.48 8192 33.13 527.99 997.69 2418.87 7267.73 16384 33.08 525.95 1107.64 2379.50 8434.29 32768 33.13 525.38 1199.08 2375.81 8857.09 65536 33.20 523.39 1255.33 2473.92 9248.35 131072 33.11 520.87 1292.54 2605.49 8559.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel