Ok, here are some performance numbers for nested svm. I ran kernbench -M
on a virtual machine with 4G RAM and 1 VCPU (since nesting SMP guests
do currently not work). I measured simple virtualization with a shadow
paging guest on bare metal and within a nested guest (same guest image)
on a nested paging enabled first level guest.
| Shadow Guest (100%) | Nested Guest (X) | X
-----------------+---------------------+-------------------+--------
Elapsed Time | 553.244 (1.21208) | 1185.95 (20.0365) | 214.363%
User Time | 407.728 (0.987279) | 520.434 (8.55643) | 127.642%
System Time | 144.828 (0.480645) | 664.528 (11.6648) | 458.839%
Percent CPU | 99 (0) | 99 (0) | 100.000%
Context Switches | 98265.2 (183.001) | 220015 (3302.74) | 223.899%
Sleeps | 49397.8 (31.0274) | 49460.2 (364.84) | 100.126%
So we have an overall slowdown in the first nesting level of more than
50%. Mostly because we spend so much time in the system level. Seems
there is some work to do for performance improvements :-)
Joerg
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