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Re: [Xen-devel] network performance drop heavily in xen 4.0 release
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:24:12PM +0800, yingbin wang wrote:
> sorry, I forgot to report the performance of xen4.0+kernel2.6.18.8.
>
> xen4.0+kernel2.6.18.8:
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 4] 0.0-16.3 sec 1.79 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec
>
> This combination can only meet some of our needs.
>
> the reason why we didn't use 2.6.18.8:
> 1. Our storage application is base on NBD, which will goto deadlock
> on 2.6.18.8 when nbd-client and nbd-server are deployed on the same
> server.
> 2. Hard disk frequently offline
>
Do you have Xen credit scheduler weights properly configured?
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> so we want to upgrade to kernel2.6.31.
> we also try xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.12(gentoo-xen-kernel patch). the
> performance is acceptable, but blktap2(support VHD) not work.
> has anybody solve the problem in xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.13?
>
You could try pvops dom0 kernel from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch aswell:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
-- Pasi
> Cheers,
> wyb
>
> 2010年4月16日 Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 15/04/2010 17:39, "yingbin wang" <yingbin.wangyb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I report a Bug !!! We have just upgraded to
> >> xen4.0+kernel2.6.31.13 recently. however , fond that the network
> >> performance drop heavily in dom0 (nearly Reduced by 2/3 vs
> >> xen3.4.2+kernel2.6.18.8 ) .
> >
> > How does xen4.0+kernel2.6.18.8 perform? The regression is more likely in the
> > dom0 kernel than Xen itself. And you don't *have* to upgrade both.
> >
> > -- Keir
> >
> >
> >
>
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