[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [BUNDLE] Testing a simpler inter-domain transport
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:38:51PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > I've finally found time to resurrect my "share" code, update it for Xen > 3.0 and (with Tony Breeds' help) created a simple LAN driver. You can > find the bundle here: > > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/xen/xen-share-2006-02-05.hg Hum, I tried hg clone http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/xen/xen-share-2006-02-05.hg and my version fails with a zlib compression error raising an incorrect header check, > It's unoptimized, but shows some promise. Here are the benchmarks for > tcpblast and tbench, on a uniproc 3GHz Pentium 4. I'd appreciate SMP > numbers if someone has hardware on hand: > > UDP blast: tcpblast -u -s50000 dom0 9999 > Current Xen = 254961 KB/s > Simple share = 233952 KB/s > TCP blast: tcpblast -t -s50000 dom0 9999 > Current Xen = 86566.4 KB/s > Simple share = 135415 KB/s > Bidir tcp load: tbench 10 > Current Xen = 31.9551 MB/sec > Simple share = 64.2113 MB/sec > > It's not plumbed into xenbus, so creating LANs is a manual process, > using the dmesg output from the initial creation: > > dom0# modprobe ohlan create > ohlan: created lan eth1 at address 0x1b6000 > domU# modprobe ohlan address=0x1b6000 > > Feedback welcome! point to point performances looks good, but I'm starting to worry about thing like group communication in a large Xen machine, assuming you can run a few dozens domains consurrently, it may be useful to get some efficient muticast based communication mechanism, the shared pages should help in some ways (usuall memory/speed tradeoff though). Did you look at this ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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