From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzTgO-0001cu-BS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:25:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzTgI-0002W5-20 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:25:52 -0400 Received: from mail.profihost.ag ([85.158.179.208]:58549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzTgH-0002Vh-NC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:25:45 -0400 Message-ID: <5023C867.9040306@profihost.ag> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:25:43 +0200 From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <502283FA.2080506@profihost.ag> <5022912B.2000607@redhat.com> <50235527.4090804@profihost.ag> <50236059.7060801@redhat.com> <4A799203-5BFF-4DE9-9B85-459096EBEC22@profihost.ag> <50236484.2090702@redhat.com> <502369C7.7000300@profihost.ag> <50238E2A.1050203@profihost.ag> <5023A83D.9070509@profihost.ag> <5023AAB8.1090703@redhat.com> <5023AD9F.1070207@profihost.ag> <5023B7FD.6060306@redhat.com> <5023BDA6.7090907@profihost.ag> <5023BE37.30106@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <5023BE37.30106@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-scsi vs. virtio-blk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel , ronnie sahlberg Am 09.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > Il 09/08/2012 15:39, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG ha scritto: >>> scsi-generic would indeed incur some overhead because it does not do >>> scatter/gather I/O directly, but scsi-hd/scsi-block do not have this >>> overhead. In any case, that should be visible through the output of >>> perf if it is significant. >> >> Thanks for your help and replies. I'm a little bit lost on all these >> comments. So what to check / do next? > > Try with the deadline scheduler, and run "perf top" in guest/host if the > problems persist. Right now i'm just starting to ping from the guest to a random domain. it works for around 65s then i get the message: ping: senmsg: No buffer space available and the network connection is away until i reboot the guest. Stefan