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 Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.5 development update (July update)
 
To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:44:39 -0400Cc: artem.mygaiev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, msw@xxxxxxxxxx, Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,	dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx, mengxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, JBeulich@xxxxxxxx,	feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx, zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx,	parth.dixit@xxxxxxxxxx, Paul.Skentzos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	eddie.dong@xxxxxxxxx, rcojocaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	guijianfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Vijaya.Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	josh.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx,	avanzini.arianna@xxxxxxxxx, yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx,	xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, serge.broslavsky@xxxxxxxxxx,	yjhyun.yoo@xxxxxxxxxxx, olaf@xxxxxxxxx, wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx, vijay.kilari@xxxxxxxxx,	stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, mcgrof@xxxxxxxx,	julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx, dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxx,	robert.vanvossen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, shantong.kang@xxxxxxxxx,	roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx, anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxxx,	Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx, ufimtseva@xxxxxxxxx, bjzhang@xxxxxxxx,	boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx, andrii.tseglytskyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	jgross@xxxxxxxx, talex5@xxxxxxxxx, Wei.Liu2@xxxxxxxxxx,	george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx,	Steve.VanderLeest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kelly.Zytaruk@xxxxxxx,	dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx, ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx,	Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@xxxxxxx, david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx,	Suravee.Suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx, aravindp@xxxxxxxxx,	tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxx, malcolm.crossley@xxxxxxxxxx,	yanghy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx,	christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx, roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxxDelivery-date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:47:18 +0000List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org> 
 On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:35:22PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On mar, 2014-07-22 at 20:28 -0400, konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > == x86 == 
> 
> > *  HT enabled, virtualization overhead is high (Xen 4.4) (none)
> >    kernbench demonstrated it
> >    looking and tracing it
> >   -  Dario Faggioli
> > 
> There is a (sub-)thread sill ongoing here:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/339409
> 
> However, there have been found counterexamples, i.e., numbers showing
> that virt overhead is similar with and without HT, so I think this
> bullet can go away (not sure with what tracking status...)
The 'This confirms, for me, that it's an SMT balancing issue that we're seen. '
is not an issue anymore? As in we can get bad and good results depending
on the workload?
Now here is another question - did you run the guests with 'xen_nopvspin'
to see if this was an PV ticketlock (or the lack of it) issue?
Also what did the " I'll try more runs, e.g. with number of VCPUs equal
less than nr_corse/2 and see what happens." come out to be?
Thank you!
> 
> Dario
> 
> -- 
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
> 
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