Re: [Qemu-devel] Performance about x-data-plane

2017-01-16 Thread Karl Rister
org/page/Virtio/Block/Latency#Performance_data) >> but it seems to be out of date. Does it >> (http://repo.or.cz/qemu-kvm/stefanha.git/shortlog/refs/heads/tracing-dev-0.12.4) >> still work on QEMU 2.4.1? > > The details are out of date but the general approach to tracing the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-12-05 Thread Karl Rister
certainly throw in a few more scenarios. Do we want to stick with powers of 2 or some other strategy? -- Karl Rister <kris...@redhat.com>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-11-17 Thread Karl Rister
rt it [Paolo] > * Added run_poll_handlers_begin/end trace events for perf analysis > * Sorry, Christian, no virtqueue kick suppression yet > > Recent performance investigation work done by Karl Rister shows that the > guest->host notification takes around 20 us. This is more than t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-11-15 Thread Karl Rister
On 11/15/2016 04:32 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:52:00PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 14/11/2016 21:12, Karl Rister wrote: >>> 25646,929 >>> 51235,627 >>>1,02446,47

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-11-14 Thread Karl Rister
On 11/14/2016 09:26 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:59:25PM -0600, Karl Rister wrote: >> On 11/09/2016 11:13 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> Recent performance investigation work done by Karl Rister shows that the >>> guest->host n

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-11-14 Thread Karl Rister
On 11/14/2016 09:26 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:59:25PM -0600, Karl Rister wrote: >> On 11/09/2016 11:13 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> Recent performance investigation work done by Karl Rister shows that the >>> guest->host n

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-11-14 Thread Karl Rister
On 11/14/2016 07:53 AM, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Fri, 11/11 13:59, Karl Rister wrote: >> >> Stefan >> >> I ran some quick tests with your patches and got some pretty good gains, >> but also some seemingly odd behavior. >> >> These results are for a 5 m

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] aio: experimental virtio-blk polling mode

2016-11-11 Thread Karl Rister
On 11/09/2016 11:13 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Recent performance investigation work done by Karl Rister shows that the > guest->host notification takes around 20 us. This is more than the "overhead" > of QEMU itself (e.g. block layer). > > One way to avoid the c

Re: [Qemu-devel] dataplane performance on s390

2014-06-10 Thread Karl Rister
On 06/09/2014 08:40 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: On Mon, 06/09 15:43, Karl Rister wrote: Hi All I was asked by our development team to do a performance sniff test of the latest dataplane code on s390 and compare it against qemu.git. Here is a brief description of the configuration, the testing done

[Qemu-devel] dataplane performance on s390

2014-06-09 Thread Karl Rister
is an efficiency calculation of usage per MB of throughput. -- Karl Rister k...@us.ibm.com IBM Linux/KVM Development Optimization