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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:dgilbert at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 7:40 PM
> To: Montes, Julio <julio.montes at intel.com>; pbonzini at redhat.com
> Cc: kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io
> Subject: Re: [kata-dev] QEMU 4 and QEMU-lite
> 
> * Montes, Julio (julio.montes at intel.com) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 18:19 +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > * Montes, Julio (julio.montes at intel.com) wrote:
> > > > Hi kata-folks
> > > >
> > > > One of the topics in today's agent was QEMU 4 and the work that we
> > > > are doing to support it in Kata Containers.
> > > > I ran the boot time and memory footprint metrics in my workstation
> > > > to compare QEMU 4 vs QEMU-lite (2.11).
> > > > Here the results.
> > > >
> > > > Feel free to comment and raise your concerns about QEMU 4.
> > >
> > > So that looks pretty nice for QEMU 4; at least as fast and in
> > > the noise on the memory usage?
> >
> > yeah - IMO QEMU 4 has a good performance and new features, it's a good
> > hypervisor for Kata Containers.
> 
> Great!  Please keep running these tests to make sure we don't regress in
> future versions (especially on our soft-freezes etc so we can spot
> them before the next release.

We do have a 'metrics CI' running on Kata, that in theory would detect any major (roughly
+/- 5%) shifts - but, that would only happen when Kata updates the version of Qemu it is tracking...
And, yes, we will almost definitely have to tweak that CI to account for the new numbers when we land
The qemu4 PR ...

Graham
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