nath289

Hi All, I've heard reports of people getting fairly close to baremetal performance, and i'm only getting about 60-70%, so i'm hoping someone can help. I've read (I think) pretty much everything on here that I can, but I cant seem to fix my own issue. If theres a guide i'm missing, feel free to point me in the right direction. My Specs are: Asus Z10PE-D16 WS motherboard (Running bios 3903) 2x Xeon E5 2667 V3 (3.2ghz - 3.6hz) 64GB 2400mhz ECC Ram (It is currently down clocked due to the CPU only supporting 2133mhz, but its there in case I upgrade to V4 CPU's) 2x Asus Strix 1070 OC (One for each VM) Highpoint SSD7103 with: Samsung Evo Plus 500gb (part of a cache pool) Samsung Evo Plus 500gb (part of a cache pool) Samsung Evo Plus 500gb (Passed through to a VM) Samsung Evo Plus 1TB (Passed through to a VM) 4x 6tb Western Digital Reds Renesas 7port USB Pcie card (5 ext + 2int) (Passed through to a VM) This Mobo actually has an onboard GPU which unraid takes. Comes with a VGA port that shows the unraid GUI, so i've had no issues passing through GPU's to VMs at all. I've installed all of the performance plugins including Tips and Tweaks to set the CPU governor to high performance, etc. I've attached my diagnostics dump from unraid GUI. I've setup 2 Windows 10 VMs for gaming. Even before the second VM was even created, I've had performance issues on my VM, that is noticeable in gaming. I think the Issue is Latency related, but I havent been able to solve it. I also run Plex, Deluge and Owncloud, but they are pinned to seperate cores to the VMs. The VM cores are also isolated from the host (including the iothreadpin and emulatorpin in the VM xml). Each VM is given 4 hyperthreaded cores, and 16gb of ram. I have a whole bunch of Corsair LL120's that are controlled through a Commander Pro, and plugged into the internal port on the Usb pcie card. When the iCue service is running, that does result in some latency, but when i kill the service and close the app, DPC Latency Checker reports latency as still averaging about 500-600us, which it considers as green. Gaming performance is still sluggish while the services are stopped. I've run LatencyMon, which gives similar results to DPC. I've Run disk performance tests through Samsung Magician, which report about 3200MB/s, so i dont believe its the disk (especially given the NVMe Passthrough). The CPU and GPU performance tests via passmark report about 70% of typical results for those CPU's and GPU's. My VM XML is: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm' id='8'> <name>Nath-WIN10</name> <uuid>e0af2c18-2998-14aa-5e8b-4fd0853646b6</uuid> <description>Nathan-WIN10</description> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="windows.png" os="windows10"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>16777216</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu> <iothreads>2</iothreads> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='12'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='28'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='13'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='29'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='14'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='30'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='15'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='31'/> <emulatorpin cpuset='10,26'/> <iothreadpin iothread='1' cpuset='11'/> <iothreadpin iothread='2' cpuset='27'/> </cputune> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.2'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/e0af2c18-2998-14aa-5e8b-4fd0853646b6_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> <smbios mode='host'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vpindex state='on'/> <synic state='on'/> <stimer state='on'/> <reset state='on'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='1234567890ab'/> <frequencies state='on'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='2'/> <cache mode='passthrough'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> <timer name='hpet' present='yes'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/isos/virtio-win-0.1.173-2.iso' index='3'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdb' bus='sata'/> <readonly/> <alias name='sata0-0-1'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/> <source file='/mnt/user/bootloader/spaces_win_clover.img' index='2'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='sata0-0-2'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/> <source file='/mnt/user/Games/Nathan-WIN10/vdisk2.img' index='1'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdd' bus='sata'/> <alias name='sata0-0-3'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='3'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='qemu-xhci' ports='15'> <alias name='usb'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'> <alias name='pcie.0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='1' port='0x8'/> <alias name='pci.1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='2' port='0x9'/> <alias name='pci.2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='3' port='0xa'/> <alias name='pci.3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='4' port='0xb'/> <alias name='pci.4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x3'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='5' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='5' port='0xc'/> <alias name='pci.5'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x4'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='6' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='6' port='0xd'/> <alias name='pci.6'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x5'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='7' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='7' port='0xe'/> <alias name='pci.7'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x6'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='8' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='8' port='0xf'/> <alias name='pci.8'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='9' model='pcie-to-pci-bridge'> <model name='pcie-pci-bridge'/> <alias name='pci.9'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <alias name='ide'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:e3:c4:d7'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet1'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/1'/> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1'> <source path='/dev/pts/1'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-8-Nath-WIN10/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='connected'/> <alias name='channel0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <alias name='input0'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='4'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input1'/> </input> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input2'/> </input> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x8d' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x8d' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x81' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x06' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x84' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x046d'/> <product id='0xc226'/> <address bus='3' device='4'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev4'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x046d'/> <product id='0xc227'/> <address bus='3' device='6'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev5'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='2'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x046d'/> <product id='0xc52b'/> <address bus='3' device='7'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev6'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='3'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='none'/> </devices> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'> <label>+0:+100</label> <imagelabel>+0:+100</imagelabel> </seclabel> </domain> Appreciate any help that can be given.... Let me know if any extra info is needed. tower-diagnostics-20200415-0151.zip