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<div>In order to reduce the noise, I re-ran the tests in a new no-GUI system. </div>
<div>In the case of QEMU4+PVH the boot time is a little bit better but the memory</div>
<div>footprint is bigger than qemu4 and qemu-lite. Here the results</div>
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<div>On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 11:07 +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:</div>
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<div>On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 07:21:38PM +0000, Montes, Julio wrote:</div>
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<div>On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 12:10 -0700, Maran Wilson wrote:</div>
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<div>On 5/28/2019 11:54 AM, Whaley, Graham wrote:</div>
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<div>From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:<a href="mailto:dgilbert@redhat.com">dgilbert@redhat.com</a>]</div>
<div>Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 7:40 PM</div>
<div>To: Montes, Julio <<a href="mailto:julio.montes@intel.com">julio.montes@intel.com</a>>;
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<div>Subject: Re: [kata-dev] QEMU 4 and QEMU-lite</div>
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<div>* Montes, Julio (<a href="mailto:julio.montes@intel.com">julio.montes@intel.com</a>) wrote:</div>
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<div>On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 18:19 +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert</div>
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<div>* Montes, Julio (<a href="mailto:julio.montes@intel.com">julio.montes@intel.com</a>) wrote:</div>
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<div>Hi kata-folks</div>
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<div>One of the topics in today's agent was QEMU 4 and the work</div>
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<div>are doing to support it in Kata Containers.</div>
<div>I ran the boot time and memory footprint metrics in my</div>
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<div>to compare QEMU 4 vs QEMU-lite (2.11).</div>
<div>Here the results.</div>
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<div>Feel free to comment and raise your concerns about QEMU 4.</div>
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<div>So that looks pretty nice for QEMU 4; at least as fast and in</div>
<div>the noise on the memory usage?</div>
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<div>yeah - IMO QEMU 4 has a good performance and new features, it's</div>
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<div>Great! Please keep running these tests to make sure we don't</div>
<div>regress in</div>
<div>future versions (especially on our soft-freezes etc so we can</div>
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<div>We do have a 'metrics CI' running on Kata, that in theory would</div>
<div>detect any major (roughly</div>
<div>+/- 5%) shifts - but, that would only happen when Kata updates the</div>
<div>version of Qemu it is tracking...</div>
<div>And, yes, we will almost definitely have to tweak that CI to</div>
<div>account for the new numbers when we land</div>
<div>The qemu4 PR ...</div>
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<div>Just curious about whether you are providing the uncompressed kernel </div>
<div>image in these Qemu 4 tests or not. Qemu 4.0 supports booting the </div>
<div>uncompressed kernel binary in order to reduce boot time (if the</div>
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<div>\o/ interesting I will try, thanks.</div>
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<div>As Maran, I'm also curious about a comparison with the new QEMU 4.0</div>
<div>feature to boot uncompressed kernel binary.</div>
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<div>Here you can find some useful information (I hope :)):</div>
<div><a href="https://gist.github.com/stefano-garzarella/7b7e17e75add20abd1c42fb496cc6504">https://gist.github.com/stefano-garzarella/7b7e17e75add20abd1c42fb496cc6504</a></div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Stefano</div>
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