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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	Cong Meng <mc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] IO performance test on the tcm-vhost scsi
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:27:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD9D8A3.1080005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120614120722.GA7128@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain>

Il 14/06/2012 14:07, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> Perfect, thanks.  virtio-scsi userspace is much better than virtio-blk
> here.  That's unexpected since they both use the QEMU block layer.  If
> anything, I would have expected virtio-blk to be faster!

Yes, I would have expected something similar.  A blktrace would be
useful here because Asias measured the opposite---virtio-scsi being much
slower than virtio-blk.

> The second question is why is tcm_vhost faster than virtio-scsi
> userspace.

I would expect a difference on more high-end benchmarks (i.e. lots of
I/O to lots of disks), similar to vhost-blk.  In this simple case I
wonder how much it is due to the vagaries of the I/O scheduler, or even
statistical noise.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-13 10:13 [Qemu-devel] IO performance test on the tcm-vhost scsi mengcong
2012-06-13 10:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-13 19:08 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-06-13 19:08   ` [Qemu-devel] " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-06-14  9:57   ` Cong Meng
2012-06-14  9:57     ` [Qemu-devel] " Cong Meng
2012-06-14 20:41     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-06-14 20:41       ` [Qemu-devel] " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-06-15 10:35       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-15 10:35         ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-14  8:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-14  9:45   ` Cong Meng
2012-06-14 12:07     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-14 12:27       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-06-14 20:45         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-06-15  3:28       ` Asias He

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