Performance Overhead of Xen on Linux 3.13 on ARM Cortex-A7
Xiaoli Gong, Qi Jun Du, Xu Li, Jin Zhang, Ye Lu · 2014 Ninth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing · 2014
A number of simple performance measurements on disk speed, CPU, memory and network throughput were done on a dual ARM Cortex-A7 machine running Linux inside a Xen virtual machine that communicate with the outside through fronted-driver and backend-driver. The average performance overhead of Xen virtual machine is between 3 and 7 percent when the host is lightly loaded (running only the system software and the necessary xenstored demon and so on).