Hi list.
I am testing CentOS 5.2 now. I experience much slower IO under HVM
Guests with the newer kernels, so I started some measurements.
DOM-0 is a fully upgraded CentOS 5.2. DOM-U is CentOS 5.0 not upgraded
at all for testing purposes. DOM-U sits on an LVM Volume. No other
services are running. Hardware was freshly rebooted every time.
within DOM-0
dd if=/dev/vgpentanol/lvol2 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000
gives 134 MB/s
so thats the bare metal value.
within DOM-U
dd if=/dev/hda of=dev/null bs=1M count 1000
gives
50 MB/s with DOM-0 kernel 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5xen
10 MB/s with DOM-0 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5xen
10 MB/s with DOM-0 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen
so there has been a drop to 20% of the performance within 2.6.18-53.
Any Ideas?
The machine is a test system - so I am open to any changes in
configuration you might suggest.
As a side note: A PV Guest gets 85 MB/s no matter which kernel.
Henry
