id = 2460
title = "Significant performance degradation of qemu-x86_64 starting from version 3 on aarch64"
state = "opened"
created_at = "2024-07-26T12:20:19.705Z"
closed_at = "n/a"
labels = ["accel: TCG"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2460"
host-os = "Centos 8"
host-arch = "aarch64"
qemu-version = "qemu-x86_64 version 9.0.1, qemu-x86_64 version 2.9.1"
guest-os = "n/a"
guest-arch = "n/a"
description = """When I ran CoreMark with different qemu user-mode versions，guest x86-64-> host arm64, I found that the performance was highest with QEMU 2.x versions, and there was a significant performance degradation starting from QEMU version 3. What is the reason?

|  |             |             |             |             |             |             |            |             |             |             |             |
|------------------------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| qemu version                             | 2.5.1       | 2.8.0       | 2.9.0       | 2.9.1       | 3.0.0       | 4.0.0       | 5.2.0      | 6.2.0       | 7.2.13      | 8.2.6       | 9.0.1       |
| coremark score                           | 3905.995703 | 4465.947153 | 4534.119247 | 4538.577912 | 1167.337886 | 1163.399453 | 928.348384 | 1327.051954 | 1301.659616 | 1034.714677 | 1085.304971 |"""
reproduce = "n/a"
additional = "n/a"