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    The document discusses the performance of nested virtualization using SVM on Linux kernels. It provides benchmark results showing that CPU performance in nested SVM is now good, memory performance is acceptable but IO performance is very poor. This poor IO performance makes all hypervisors other than KVM slow when using nested SVM due to its reliance on IO. The document contains numerous charts showing benchmark results for PCMark05 and kernel compiles under different nested virtualization configurations.

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    The document discusses the performance of nested virtualization using SVM on Linux kernels. It provides benchmark results showing that CPU performance in nested SVM is now good, memory performance is acceptable but IO performance is very poor. This poor IO performance makes all hypervisors other than KVM slow when using nested SVM due to its reliance on IO. The document contains numerous charts showing benchmark results for PCMark05 and kernel compiles under different nested virtualization configurations.

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    10 Lpc2010 Nested SVM

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    Nested SVM - Performance Discussion

    Joerg Roedel

    $ whoami

    Joerg Roedel Work for AMD Projects: KVM and IOMMU

    State of Nested SVM


    Merged into the 2.6.31 Linux Kernel Significantly improved since then

    Lots of bugs fixed Performance improvements Unit-Tests available

    The 2.6.37-rc1 Linux-Kernel has support for emulating the Nested Paging feature

    Supported Hypervisors

    KVM Xen VirtualBox HyperV/VirtualPC VMware

    Nested SVM Costs

    SVM instructions are a lot of slower in emulation


    VMRUN/VMExit VMLoad/VMSave STGI/CLGI ~7000 cycles ~ 2000 cycles each ~ 1600 cycles each

    This numbers are around 5-10 times higher than in the non-emulated case

    And Now: The Real Benchmarks

    PCMark05 - Scores

    HDD

    Memory

    L2 L1

    CPU

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    PCMark05 CPU Suite


    Image Decompression Audio Decompression File Decryption File Decompression File Encryption File Compression Audio Compression Image Decompression File Decryption File Encryption File Decompression File Compression 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 L2 L1

    PCMark05 Memory Suite 1


    Memory Copy - 4 KB Memory Copy - 192 KB Memory Copy - 8 MB Memory Copy - 16 MB Memory Write - 4 KB Memory Write - 192 KB Memory Write - 8 MB Memory Write - 16 MB Memory Read - 4 KB Memory Read - 192 KB Memory Read - 8 MB Memory Read - 16 MB 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 L2 L1

    PCMark05 Memory Suite 2

    Memory Latency - Random 4 KB

    Memory Latency - Random 192 KB

    L2 L1 Memory Latency - Random 8 MB

    Memory Latency - Random 16 MB

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    PCMark05 HDD Suite


    HDD - File Write

    HDD - Virus Scan

    HDD - General Usage

    L2 L1

    HDD - Application Loading

    HDD - XP Startup

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    HDD Scenarios
    L1-IDE-L2-IDE-Blk

    L1-Virtio-L2-IDE-Blk

    L1-Virtio-L2-Virtio-Blk

    L1-Virtio-IDE-Blk

    L1-Virtio-Blk

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    Kernel-Compile on SMP

    SMP 4

    SMP 2

    L2 L1

    SMP 1

    00:00.00

    02:00.00

    04:00.00

    06:00.00

    08:00.00

    10:00.00

    12:00.00

    Conclusions

    CPU performance in Nested SVM is well today Memory performance is acceptable still room for improvement IO performance really sucks

    Slow IO makes every hypervisor besides KVM slow under Nested SVM

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