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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests



On 01/16/2012 09:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:

[...]
Result for PLE machine:
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Machine : IBM xSeries with Intel(R) Xeon(R)  X7560 2.27GHz CPU with 32/64 core, 
with 8
         online cores and 4*64GB RAM

Kernbench:
                 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
                 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
Scenario A:                             
case 1x:         161.263 (56.518)        159.635 (40.5621)      1.00953
case 2x:         190.748 (61.2745)       190.606 (54.4766)      0.0744438
case 3x:         227.378 (100.215)       225.442 (92.0809)      0.851446

Scenario B:
                 446.104 (58.54 )        433.12733 (54.476)     2.91

Dbench:
Throughput is in MB/sec
NRCLIENTS        BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
                 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
8               1.101190  (0.875082)    1.700395  (0.846809)    54.4143
16              1.524312  (0.120354)    1.477553  (0.058166)    -3.06755
32              2.143028  (0.157103)    2.090307  (0.136778)    -2.46012

So on a very contended system we're actually slower? Is this expected?



I think, the result is interesting because its PLE machine. I have to experiment more with parameters, SPIN_THRESHOLD, and also may be ple_gap and ple_window.

Alex




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