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SubjectRe: virtio-scsi <-> vhost multi lun/adapter performance results with 3.6-rc0
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
<nab@linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
> Using a KVM guest with 32x vCPUs and 4G memory, the results for 4x
> random I/O now look like:
>
> workload | jobs | 25% write / 75% read | 75% write / 25% read
> -----------------|------|----------------------|---------------------
> 1x rd_mcp LUN | 8 | ~155K IOPs | ~145K IOPs
> 16x rd_mcp LUNs | 16 | ~315K IOPs | ~305K IOPs
> 32x rd_mcp LUNs | 16 | ~425K IOPs | ~410K IOPs
>
> The full fio randrw results for the six test cases are attached below.
> Also, using a workload of fio numjobs > 16 currently makes performance
> start to fall off pretty sharply regardless of the number of vCPUs..
>
> So running a similar workload with loopback SCSI ports on bare-metal
> produces ~1M random IOPs with 12x LUNs + numjobs=32. At numjobs=16 here
> with vhost the 16x LUN configuration ends up being in the range of ~310K
> IOPs for the current sweet spot..

This makes me wonder what a comparison against baremetal looks like
and the perf top, mpstat, and kvm_stat results on the host.

Stefan


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