VM Versus Meta Disk Performance
Xen HVM domU 4.0.2_02-4.9.2 testing on CentOS 6.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


xen_guest: 

	Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 21GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+

	OS: CentOS 6.0, Kernel: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.4 20100726, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.0.2_02-4.9.2

xen_dom0: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5620 @ 1.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTU, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 18432MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500530NS + 1999GB MR9260-8i, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82576 Gigabit Connection

	OS: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64), Kernel: 2.6.37.6-0.7-xen (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
xen_guest . 9.87  |======================================
xen_dom0 .. 15.40 |============================================================
xen_guest . 9.97  |=======================================
xen_guest . 9.77  |======================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync
Files/s > Higher Is Better
xen_guest . 18.10   |=
xen_dom0 .. 1005.37 |==========================================================
xen_guest . 15.55   |=
xen_guest . 15.00   |=


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads
Files/s > Higher Is Better
xen_dom0 . 32.73 |=============================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
xen_dom0 . 15.80 |=============================================================