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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Andrew Theurer <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM performance vs. Xen
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:47:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F9ABDE.2070607@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F9AB2F.4020505@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Andrew Theurer wrote:
>>
>> Really, I think linux-aio support can help here.
> Yes, I think that would work for real block devices, but would that 
> help for files?  I am using real block devices right now, but it would 
> be nice to also see a benefit for files in a file-system.  Or maybe I 
> am mis-understanding this, and linux-aio can be used on files?

For cache=off, with some file systems, yes.  But not for 
cache=writethrough/writeback.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29 14:41 KVM performance vs. Xen Andrew Theurer
2009-04-29 15:20 ` Nakajima, Jun
2009-04-29 15:33   ` Andrew Theurer
2009-04-30  8:56 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 12:49   ` Andrew Theurer
2009-04-30 13:02     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 13:44       ` Andrew Theurer
2009-04-30 13:47         ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-04-30 13:52         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 13:45   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-30 13:53     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 15:08       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-30 13:59     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 14:04       ` Andrew Theurer
2009-04-30 15:11         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-30 15:19           ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 15:59             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-01  0:40             ` Andrew Theurer
2009-05-03 16:20               ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-30 15:09       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-30 16:41   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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