[vfio-users] Help Patching Qemu for Vendor

[Alex Williamson]

On Sun, 8 May 2016 16:35:39 -0500
Spam House <kthxplzdie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thibaut,
> 
> Thanks for the info. The performance difference I am measuring with 3dmark
> firestrike.
> 
> Unraid Win10 VM (QEMU/KVM):
> Overall Score = 14037
> Graphics = 17152
> 
> Arch Win10 VM (QEMU/KVM)
> Overall Score  = 12085
> Graphics = 13658
> 
> I have not fully implemented huge pages yet but the CPU performance seems
> to be about the same. The gpu specifically has greatly reduced performance.


Hyper-v features are known not to make much difference for 3dmark.
Tune the CPU type, CPU topology, pin vCPUs, and use hugepages.