Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-16 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 16.03.17 at 09:13, wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> ..., and iirc PV migration didn't have any issue with TSC freq >> changing during migration prior to the introduction of vTSC. > > When was this introduced? There is a claim that this slowdown is a > regression. Many, ma

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-16 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Mar 15, Jan Beulich wrote: > ..., and iirc PV migration didn't have any issue with TSC freq > changing during migration prior to the introduction of vTSC. When was this introduced? There is a claim that this slowdown is a regression. Olaf signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.03.17 at 17:41, wrote: > On 03/15/2017 12:02 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 15.03.17 at 16:26, wrote: >>> On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> As a crazy idea, doest this help? >> tsc->i

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 03/15/2017 12:02 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 15.03.17 at 16:26, wrote: >> On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: > As a crazy idea, doest this help? > tsc->incarnation = 0 >>> This does indeed help. O

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.03.17 at 16:53, wrote: > On 15/03/17 16:43, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >> On 03/15/2017 11:26 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> As a crazy idea, doest this help? >>

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.03.17 at 16:26, wrote: > On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: As a crazy idea, doest this help? tsc->incarnation = 0 >> This does indeed help. One system shows now the results below, which >> mea

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Alan Robinson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:53:02AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 15.03.17 at 16:43, wrote: ... > > We have seen something similar being caused by the superpage > > attribute getting dropped when the domU was migrated. The new > > copy of the domU only has 4K pages instead of 2MB pages eventua

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 15/03/17 16:43, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 03/15/2017 11:26 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: > As a crazy idea, doest this help? > tsc->incarnation = 0 >>> This does ind

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.03.17 at 16:43, wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:20:44PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> After reports about degraded performance after a PV domU was migrated >> from one dom0 to another it turned out that this issue happens with >> every version of Xen and every version of domU kernel.

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/03/17 15:43, Alan Robinson wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:20:44PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> After reports about degraded performance after a PV domU was migrated >> from one dom0 to another it turned out that this issue happens with >> every version of Xen and every versi

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi Olaf, On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:20:44PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > After reports about degraded performance after a PV domU was migrated > from one dom0 to another it turned out that this issue happens with > every version of Xen and every version of domU kernel. > > The used benchmark is 's

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 03/15/2017 11:26 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: As a crazy idea, doest this help? tsc->incarnation = 0 >> This does indeed help. One system shows now the results below, w

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 15/03/17 16:26, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: As a crazy idea, doest this help? tsc->incarnation = 0 >> This does indeed help. One system shows now the results below, which

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/03/17 15:23, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> As a crazy idea, doest this help? >>> tsc->incarnation = 0 > This does indeed help. One system shows now the results below, which > means the performance goes down during migrati

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > As a crazy idea, doest this help? > > tsc->incarnation = 0 This does indeed help. One system shows now the results below, which means the performance goes down during migration (to localhost) and goes back to normal aft

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Mar 15, Andrew Cooper wrote: > As a crazy idea, doest this help? > tsc->incarnation = 0 Had to move to another testhost and this seems to help. Will do more testing once the original testsystems are accessible again. Thanks! Olaf signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

Re: [Xen-devel] PV performance degraded after live migration

2017-03-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/03/17 11:20, Olaf Hering wrote: > After reports about degraded performance after a PV domU was migrated > from one dom0 to another it turned out that this issue happens with > every version of Xen and every version of domU kernel. > > The used benchmark is 'sysbench memory'. I hacked it up to