state-serialize.md

MicroVM state serialization benchmarks

The benchmarks have been performed using a synthetic state snapshot that contains 100 structs and a 10k element array. Source code: src/snapshot/benches/main.rs. Snapshot size: 83886 bytes.

Host configuration

- Architecture:        x86_64
- CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
- Byte Order:          Little Endian
- CPU(s):              4
- Thread(s) per core:  2
- Core(s) per socket:  2
- Socket(s):           1
- NUMA node(s):        1
- Vendor ID:           GenuineIntel
- CPU family:          6
- Model:               142
- Model name:          Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7600U CPU @ 2.80GHz
- Stepping:            9
- CPU MHz:             1100.008
- CPU max MHz:         3900.0000
- CPU min MHz:         400.0000
- BogoMIPS:            5799.77
- Virtualization:      VT-x
- L1d cache:           32K
- L1i cache:           32K
- L2 cache:            256K
- L3 cache:            4096K
- NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-3
- Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
                       cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
                       tmpbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art
                       arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology
                       nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64
                       monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr
                       pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt
                       tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm
                        3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd
                        ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
                        fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms
                        invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt
                        xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln
                        pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp md_clear
                        flush_l1d

Current baseline

Test	Mean
Serialize	371.38 us
Serialize + crc64	493.26 us
Deserialize	90.755 us
Deserialize + crc64	216.90 us

Detailed criterion benchmarks available here.