Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1505227-DE-1505217DE71
Debian Jessie KVM tuning
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN
VirtIO+THP+VCPUPIN:
Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM VMware
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN:
Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 9GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM VMware
AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO+THP+VCPUPIN .... 23.22 |================================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 22.45 |==============================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 22.25 |==============================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 16.45 |==================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 16.11 |=================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 16.47 |==================================
VirtIO+THP+VCPUPIN .... 15.80 |=================================
x264 2014-08-30
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtIO+THP+VCPUPIN .... 24.14 |================================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 23.12 |==============================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 23.54 |===============================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 18.75 |=====================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 19.78 |=======================================
IDE+NO THP+NO VCPUPIN . 19.58 |=======================================
VirtIO+THP+VCPUPIN .... 20.21 |========================================