Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] xen: vnuma introduction for pv guest

From: Dario Faggioli
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 10:39:34 EST


On ven, 2013-12-20 at 02:48 -0500, Elena Ufimtseva wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Elena Ufimtseva <ufimtseva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dario, what tools did you use to test NUMA on xen? Maybe there is
> > something I can use as well?
> > Here http://lwn.net/Articles/558593/ Mel Gorman uses specjbb and jvm,
> > I though I can run something similar.
>
> And of course, more details will follow... :)
>
Yeah, well, during early investigation, I also used basically just
SpecJBB. See here:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/04/26/numa-and-xen-part-1-introduction/
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/05/16/numa-and-xen-part-ii-scheduling-and-placement/

For benchmarking our NUMA aware scheduling solution, in Xen, I used
SpecJBB, sysbench and LMbench:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/05/16/numa-and-xen-part-ii-scheduling-and-placement/

The trickiest part is have the benchmark(s) of choice running
concurrently is a bunch of VMs on the same host. I used some hand
crafted scripts at the time, very specific to my own environment.

I'm working on abstracting that and putting together something more easy
to be shared and used outside my attic. :-P

Regards,
Dario

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