linux-kernel - AlacrityVM numbers updated for 31-rc4

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Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:43:23 -0400
From:	Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com>
To:	alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	alacrityvm-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: AlacrityVM numbers updated for 31-rc4

I re-ran the numbers on 10GE against the actual alacrityvm v0.1 release
available in git on kernel.org.

I tried to include the newly announced "vhost" driver (Michael Tsirkin)
for virtio acceleration, but ran into issues getting the patches to apply.

For now, this includes native, virtio-u (virtio-userspace), and venet
all running on 31-rc4.  If I can resolve the issue with Michaels
patches, I will add "virtio-k" (virtio-kernel) to the mix as well.  For
now, here are the results for 1500mtu:

native:   7388Mb/s,   29.8us rtt (33505 tps udp-rr)
venet:    3654Mb/s,   56.8us rtt (17600 tps udp-rr)
virtio-u: 1955Mb/s, 4016.0us rtt (  249 tps udp-rr)

Note that on one particular boot-session, I actually saw venet run
consistently 4600Mb/s, and virtio-u run consistently 2800Mb/s.  I am not
sure why other runs resulted in deterministically lower numbers, but I
included the average of the low runs to be conservative, ~3600, ~1900
respectively).

Of interest here is that native made a huge jump (2.6.29 was more like
4Gb/s), and also that KVM regressed a bit, especially compared to native
numbers.  The cause for either of these changes is not known at this
time, but I will investigate the cause over the next few days.

In any case, I have updated the graphs on the AlacrityVM wiki to reflect
these latest numbers:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/AlacrityVM

Kind Regards,
-Greg

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