KVM - document recommended changes in defaults
Qemu-kvm offers a great many options with various effects on stability and performance. We should provide guidance to users for how to obtain their desired workload characteristics.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Dave Walker
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Serge Hallyn
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- Accepted for precise
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-12.04
- Started by
- Completed by
- Serge Hallyn
Whiteboard
Status: started
Work Items:
[serge-hallyn] Define list of VM characteristics we care about: DONE
[serge-hallyn] Get feedback on ubuntu-server about workloads: DONE
[serge-hallyn] Measure impact of putting virtio VM on: ext4, lvm, xfs: DONE
[serge-hallyn] Define list of tests to run: DONE
[serge-hallyn] Test effects of tunables on disk performance: POSTPONED
[serge-hallyn] Test effects of tunables on network performance: POSTPONED
[serge-hallyn] Test effects of tunables on cpu performance: POSTPONED
[serge-hallyn] Document test results on blog: POSTPONED
[serge-hallyn] Add small section to server documentation: POSTPONED
Notes:
It'll be too late to add a section to the server guide. We'll do it in the wiki for now.
Just about done with disk performance benchmarks, but too late, marking postponed
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
