In cinebench, I get 480 and 105fps on metal and 470 and 88fps in the VM. So definitely a drop there, though I wonder why openGL more than the cpu test. I have to add that in the VM, the disk was solicited a lot. Also, I'm not using any CPU pinning or anything like that.
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Guillaume
On 27 Feb 2016 13:51, Okky Hendriansyah <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On February 27, 2016 at 18:31:39, mario goebbels ([email protected]) wrote:
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>> It's possible it's the IO. I had similar issues with GTA V in a VM, where its large amounts of IO, due to the game's streaming geometry and textures against my iSCSI disk, got everything in a tizzy, altho it were freezes of a few seconds only. I solved it by using iothreads.
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>> As far as hugepages go, your kernel is recent enough for transparent hugepages, so you'll be using 2MB hugepages already.
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>> In regards to the CPU flags, ditch hv_vapic. You have a Haswell, with APICv, which has less overhead in KVM.
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>> -mg
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> Hi Mario,
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> I think Alex had mentioned before in one of the past thread [1], that in case of GPU passthrough (or device assignment in general), transparent hugepages is not beneficial. Instead use traditional hugepages.
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> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2015-November/msg00085.html
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> Best regards,
> Okky Hendriansyah
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