On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Deron wrote:
Hello.
I have been doing some performance tests with Xen and CentOS and have found some strange statistics when comparing the virtual memory (/proc/vmstat) and I/O (/proc/diskstat) statistics between the Domain 0 and guests.
When I look at the "pgpgin" statistic it is exactly the same as the "read sectors" in Dom0. However, when I look at the same statistics in the guest, the "read sectors" is exactly 2x "pgpgin".
I have tried this on 2 different versions, each on a different physical server. Here is an example of the statistics over a 30 second period (while running a benchmark in Dom1) in the Dom0 and Guest Domain. pgpgin read sectors ======= ========= Dom0 1698024 1698024 Dom1 848412 1696824
I have looked at some various settings to see if I could explain it. I can't tell if the Dom1 guest kernel is reporting incorrectly, or there is some other explanation. If anyone has any ideas about this I would appreciate any feedback.
Dom 0 kernels 3.10.29-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 3.4.54-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64
Guest kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
The numbers that you are seeing are probably wrong due to an accounting issue in blkfront or blkback. It would be interesting to know whether this happens even with the most recent kernels.