PingPong Performance Comparison

PingPong is the classical pattern used for measuring startup and throughput
of a single message sent between two processes.

2-node Latency (millisecond) Performance Results


#bytes  #reps   linux           dom0            domU(SMP)     domU(noSMP)
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0       1000        142.28          201.37          298.49          348.02
1       1000        142.60          202.35          299.52          348.91
2       1000        142.97          202.13          299.97          347.95
4       1000        143.22          202.05          299.44          348.45
8       1000        147.83          203.16          301.75          349.43
16      1000        144.85          203.88          301.08          351.01
32      1000        148.45          208.30          305.30          356.87
64      1000        154.44          213.80          311.89          362.70
128     1000        166.38          225.91          324.46          377.86
256     1000        189.68          248.94          349.89          402.87
512     1000        241.61          299.18          404.47          460.34
1024    1000        337.28          398.54          509.13          560.14
2048    1000        474.07          557.69          680.87          751.67
4096    1000        670.89          727.07          894.74          990.26
8192    1000       1111.15         1183.69         1347.75         1676.83
16384   1000       1875.47         1985.78         2182.93         4216.76
32768   1000       3487.33         3583.29         3689.66         6666.26
65536   640        6675.76         6828.86         6921.04        12283.05
131072  320       13457.37        13701.94        13927.69        18908.86
262144  160       26636.36        26888.46        27162.10        37143.13
524288  80        53077.08        53491.36        53679.80        65393.47
1048576 40       105817.26       106397.69       106509.68       125706.35
2097152 20       211329.12       212919.29       212844.34       280756.54
4194304 10       421712.16       424520.27       423833.71       576145.45


2-node Throughput (MB/sec) Performance Results


#bytes  #reps   linux           dom0            domU(SMP)     domU(noSMP)
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0       1000          0.00            0.00            0.00            0.00
1       1000          0.01            0.00            0.00            0.00
2       1000          0.01            0.01            0.01            0.01
4       1000          0.03            0.02            0.01            0.01
8       1000          0.05            0.04            0.03            0.02
16      1000          0.11            0.07            0.05            0.04
32      1000          0.21            0.15            0.10            0.09
64      1000          0.40            0.29            0.20            0.17
128     1000          0.73            0.54            0.38            0.32
256     1000          1.29            0.98            0.70            0.61
512     1000          2.02            1.63            1.21            1.06
1024    1000          2.90            2.45            1.92            1.74
2048    1000          4.12            3.50            2.87            2.60
4096    1000          5.82            5.37            4.37            3.94
8192    1000          7.03            6.60            5.80            4.68
16384   1000          8.33            7.87            7.16            3.73
32768   1000          8.96            8.72            8.47            4.70
65536   640           9.36            9.15            9.03            5.10
131072  320           9.29            9.12            8.97            6.63
262144  160           9.38            9.30            9.20            6.75
524288  80            9.42            9.35            9.31            7.65
1048576 40            9.45            9.40            9.39            7.96
2097152 20            9.47            9.39            9.40            7.13
4194304 10            9.48            9.42            9.44            6.94