gvisor_analysis

A collection of programs used for benchmarking gVisor performance.

Experiment Guide

Implemented

1. Read Throughput
2. Write Throughput
3. Thread Spinup Throughput
4. Network Throughput
5. getpid Throughput
6. Container Spinup Speed
7. Import Speed (Python)

Future

• Google Cloud Functions performance

Installing

To install all dependencies run the following command

$ make all

This will install all required dependencies for running gvisor_analysis on Ubuntu. This includes installing and configuring gvsior and docker.

Usage

The following commands are available to execute the tests:

To execute all tests..

$ make test-all

To execute a subset of test configurations..

$ make test-bare           # To execute tests on only bare metal

$ make test-runc           # To execute tests only on docker's default runc runtime

$ make test-runsc-ptrace   # To execute tests only on gvisors runtime runsc using its ptrace platform

$ make test-runsc-kvm      # To execute tests only on gvisors runtime runsc using its kvm platform