Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-30 Thread Offer Baruch
Hi all, Well we conducted another test (much better than the last one - it had too many unpredictable variables): 1. 1 destination machine let's call it dest1 2. dest1 has 2 nics 2.1 vlan 411 access mode thru a VSWITCH 2.2 vlan 420 trunck mode directly thru osa devices

Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Post
On 10/30/2011 at 12:42 PM, Offer Baruch offerbar...@gmail.com wrote: We are having real performance issues and just can*t find the reason. CPU is not utilize and we can still see stolen time on all guests. Have you checked to see if an excessive amount of DIAGNOSE X'9C' (Voluntary Time

Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-30 Thread Barton Robinson
Re performance, there has been no need to change time slice since qdio, about 5 years ago. Offer Baruch wrote: Hi all, Well we conducted another test (much better than the last one - it had too many unpredictable variables): 1. 1 destination machine let's call it dest1 2. dest1 has 2 nics

Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-30 Thread Harder, Pieter
Hi, I am not a current S/390 customer, but when I was I spent quite some time together with Rob vd Heij analysing VSwitch performance and the workings of the virtualised instructions (none of them published by IBM) that go with them. At that time (z/VM 5.3 ish) those instructions needed to

Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-30 Thread Offer Baruch
No... how can check that? Thanks! Offer -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 7:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM Switch performance On 10/30/2011 at 12:42 PM, Offer Baruch

Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Post
On 10/30/2011 at 02:47 PM, Offer Baruch offerbar...@gmail.com wrote: No... how can check that? With a z/VM performance monitor. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to