KVM PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS AND OPTIMIZATIONS - RedHat Summit, 2011 [.pdf]

http://www.redhat.com/summit/2011/presentations/summit/decoding_the_code/wednesday/wagner_w_420_kvm_performance_improvements_and_optimizations.pdf Internal performance-related changes to KVM available since RHEL 6.1 . ( vhost_net, NUMA TLB, THB , PCI-Bypass, etc) -

KVM PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS AND OPTIMIZATIONS - RedHat Summit, 2011 [.pdf]

http://www.redhat.com/summit/2011/presentations/summit/decoding_the_code/wednesday/wagner_w_420_kvm_performance_improvements_and_optimizations.pdf Internal performance-related changes to KVM available since RHEL 6.1 . ( vhost_net, NUMA TLB, THB , PCI-Bypass, etc) -

Using Linux KVM and KSM in scientific computing environments- Red Hat Inc. [.PDF]

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=4&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=56353 by Andrea Arcangeli aarcange at redhat.com CERN virtualization workshop - Geneve 24 June 2009 Copyright © Some notes about KVM and KSM, and CERN computing environment

Using Linux KVM and KSM in scientific computing environments- Red Hat Inc. [.PDF]

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=4&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=56353 by Andrea Arcangeli aarcange at redhat.com CERN virtualization workshop - Geneve 24 June 2009 Copyright © Some notes about KVM and KSM, and CERN computing environment

Using Linux KVM and KSM in scientific computing environments- Red Hat Inc. [.PDF]

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=4&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=56353 by Andrea Arcangeli aarcange at redhat.com CERN virtualization workshop - Geneve 24 June 2009 Copyright © Some notes about KVM and KSM, and CERN computing environment

Understanding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Common Issues and Troubleshooting .odp - Red Hat

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rhevm%20disk%20io%20performance&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/presentations/files/rhev-troubleshooting-summit2012_dk.odp&ei=7ZMlUK_4Mse5igKT-oCoBg&usg=AFQjCNHH_iEDyPMyQU1gWg8SqMBT7UCO1w&cad=rja For administrators who what to understand how RHEV works and and how to troubleshoot possible issues. (RHEV is complicated )

Understanding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Common Issues and Troubleshooting .odp - Red Hat

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rhevm%20disk%20io%20performance&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/presentations/files/rhev-troubleshooting-summit2012_dk.odp&ei=7ZMlUK_4Mse5igKT-oCoBg&usg=AFQjCNHH_iEDyPMyQU1gWg8SqMBT7UCO1w&cad=rja For administrators who what to understand how RHEV works and and how to troubleshoot possible issues. (RHEV is complicated )

Understanding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Common Issues and Troubleshooting .odp - Red Hat

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rhevm%20disk%20io%20performance&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/presentations/files/rhev-troubleshooting-summit2012_dk.odp&ei=7ZMlUK_4Mse5igKT-oCoBg&usg=AFQjCNHH_iEDyPMyQU1gWg8SqMBT7UCO1w&cad=rja For administrators who what to understand how RHEV works and and how to troubleshoot possible issues. (RHEV is complicated )

Appendix G. KVM Virtual Machine Timing Management

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Administration_Guide/KVM_Clock_Appendix.html Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’ This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver

Appendix G. KVM Virtual Machine Timing Management

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Administration_Guide/KVM_Clock_Appendix.html Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’ This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver