From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Kurt Yoder <ktykvm@yoderhome.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO on guest is 20 times slower than host
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:55:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CA6FFC.2030807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B947DF20-D97A-4D7C-9C3E-7064BEA0BC01@yoderhome.com>
Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
> What do you mean about the cache? Is my test fundamentally flawed? I
> *thought* I was testing write speed on the disk...
'dd', without further arguments, will write to the page cache and let
the kernel write the data back at a later time. If you increase the
block size (bs=1M count=1000) you should see much faster times on the
host, I wouldn't be surprised to see 1GB/s.
If you want to test disk speed, use of=/dev/blah oflag=direct. Beware
of destroying your data disk.
Something weird is happening with your system. If you extend the test,
what does 'top' show? On both guest and host.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 15:23 IO on guest is 20 times slower than host Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 16:28 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 16:35 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 16:51 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 16:54 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 17:11 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 17:55 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-03-25 18:51 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-26 10:16 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-27 13:53 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-27 14:03 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-27 14:10 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-29 14:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 19:10 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-31 9:59 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-31 10:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-04 11:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-30 19:39 ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-31 15:15 ` Kurt Yoder
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