Re: [Qemu-devel] question about performance of dataplane

[Anthony Liguori]

Zhangleiqiang <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, Stefan：
>
>       I have done some testing to compare the performance of dataplane and 
> non-dataplane.  But the result did not meet my expectations, the performance 
> of disk with dataplane enabled did not have advantage over non-dataplane. 
>
>       The following  contains the  environment info and testing results.  
> Does my testing method or testing environment have something wrong ?  Could 
> you give me some advice?  I can provide more information if need.
>
>
> 1. Environment:
>       a). Qemu 1.4 master branch
>       b). kernel:  3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64
>          c). virtual disks location:  the same local SATA harddisk
>       with ext4 fs

I doubt you'll see any performance difference with a single SATA drive.
There's no real parallelism possible as you have exactly one spindle
available.

> datasize/RW_Ratio             IOPS_dataplane  IOPS_non_dataplane      
> MBPS_dataplane  MBPS_non_dataplane
>       16K/0%                  294.094948                      293.609606      
>                 4.595234                        4.58765
>       16K/25%                 283.096745                      281.649258      
>                 4.423387                        4.40077
>       16K/75%                 316.039801                      309.585336      
>                 4.938122                        4.837271
>       32K/0%                  257.529537                      258.806128      
>                 8.047798                        8.087692
>       32K/25%                 253.729281                      253.756673      
>                 7.92904                 7.929896
>       32K/75%                 292.384568                      280.991434      
>                 9.137018                        8.780982
>       4K/0%                   321.599352                      324.116063      
>                 1.256247                        1.266078
>       4K/25%                  309.906635                      309.294278      
>                 1.210573                        1.208181
>       4K/75%                  350.168882
>       350.772329                      1.367847
>       1.370204


You are getting 300 MB/s to a single SATA disk?  I strongly suspect
you are seeing cache interaction.  I'd suggest disabling WCE on the disk
if you're going to benchmark like this.

I'd also guess 300 MB/s is what you're maxing out at with native too.
So presumably normal virtio-blk is already getting close to native
performance.  dataplane certainly isn't going to give you better than
native performance :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Leiqzhang
>
> Best Regards
>
>
>> 发件人: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden 代表 leiqzhang
>> 发送时间: 2013年3月28日 12:03
>> 收件人: Stefan Hajnoczi
>> 抄送: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden; 张 磊强
>> 主题: [Qemu-devel] 回复： dataplane bug: fail to start Windows VM with dataplane 
>> enable
>> 
>> Hi, Stefan:
>> 
>>     Thank for your reply and patch. I have done the test for Windows 7, 
>> Windows 2003, and fedora.
>> 
>>      The patch has fixed the problem now, thanks. 
>> 
>> -- 
>> leiqzhang
>> Sent by  Sparrow
>> 
>> 在 2013年3月27日星期三，23:41，Stefan Hajnoczi 写道：
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:10:35PM +0800, 张磊强 wrote:
>> Hi, Paolo && Stefan:
>> 
>> When I test the dataplane feature with qemu master, I find that
>> Windows (Windows 7 and Windows 2003) VM will hang if dataplane is
>> enabled. But if I try to start a Fedora VM, it can start normally.
>> 
>> The command I boot QEMU is:
>> x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -drive
>> file=win7.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native
>> -device 
>> virtio-blk-pci,config-wce=off,scsi=off,x-data-plane=on,drive=drive-virtio-disk,id=virtio-disk
>> 
>> I found the similar bug has reported some days ago:
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/msg02200.html
>> . And a patch for this bug has already committed by Paolo at Mar 13:
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/msg02200.html
>> .
>> 
>> But it cannot work under my environment. Could you give me some advise
>> to debug this problem ? I can provide more information if need.
>> 
>> I sent a fix and CCed you on the patch. Please test it if you have
>> time.
>> 
>> Stefan
>>