patrik-dufresne KVM testing on Debian 8.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test-kvm-4k: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test-kvm-8k: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test-kvm-128k: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test-kvm-8k-virtio: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 32GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 5291.17 |================================================= test-kvm-8k ........ 5213.53 |================================================ test-kvm-8k-virtio . 5205.51 |================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 23.84 |================================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 24.30 |=================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 24.01 |================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 16.88 |================================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 17.11 |================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 17.32 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 91.28 |======================================= test-kvm-8k ........ 95.51 |======================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 118.07 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 89.50 |=================================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 80.74 |============================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 75.23 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 315.81 |=========================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 332.10 |============================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 364.89 |================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 0.35 |================================================ test-kvm-8k ........ 0.38 |==================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 0.37 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 373.24 |============================= test-kvm-8k ........ 415.89 |================================ test-kvm-8k-virtio . 647.15 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 203.90 |================================================= test-kvm-8k ........ 209.73 |================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 202.02 |================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 283.87 |======================================= test-kvm-8k ........ 367.98 |================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 364.67 |================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 3.12 |================================================ test-kvm-8k ........ 3.36 |==================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 2.10 |================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 94.83 |================================================= test-kvm-8k ........ 98.15 |=================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 89.05 |============================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 53.29 |=============================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 57.96 |=================================================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 52.37 |============================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 17.57 |=================================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 16.05 |=============================================== test-kvm-128k ...... 15.21 |============================================ test-kvm-8k-virtio . 14.83 |=========================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 1928.62 |======================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 2094.16 |============================================ test-kvm-128k ...... 2343.72 |================================================= test-kvm-8k-virtio . 2285.14 |================================================ AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k ........ 461.75 |======================================== test-kvm-8k ........ 556.28 |================================================ test-kvm-128k ...... 249.70 |====================== test-kvm-8k-virtio . 577.05 |==================================================