Re: [Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2 0/2][RFC] virtiofsd: Improve io bandwidth by replacing pwrite with pwritev

[piaojun <piaojun@huawei.com>]

Hi Stefan,

On 2019/8/7 17:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 02:57:05PM +0800, piaojun wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Please use git send-email --thread so that each patch is part of the
> same email thread.  This makes it easier to locate the entire patch
> series in an email client and to apply the patches together.

Good suggestion, I will try using 'git send-email'.

Thanks,
Jun

> 
>> >From my test, write bandwidth will be improved greatly by replacing
>> pwrite with pwritev, and the test result as below:
>>
>> ---
>> pwrite:
>> # fio -direct=1 -time_based -iodepth=64 -rw=randwrite -ioengine=libaio -bs=1M -size=1G -numjob=16 -runtime=30 -group_reporting -name=file -filename=/mnt/virtiofs/file
>> file: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=1M-1M/1M-1M/1M-1M, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=64
>> ...
>> fio-2.13
>> Starting 16 processes
>> Jobs: 16 (f=16): [w(16)] [100.0% done] [0KB/886.0MB/0KB /s] [0/886/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
>> file: (groupid=0, jobs=16): err= 0: pid=5799: Tue Aug 6 18:48:26 2019
>> write: io=26881MB, bw=916988KB/s, iops=895, runt= 30018msec
>>
>> pwritev:
>> # fio -direct=1 -time_based -iodepth=64 -rw=randwrite -ioengine=libaio -bs=1M -size=1G -numjob=16 -runtime=30 -group_reporting -name=file -filename=/mnt/virtiofs/file
>> file: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=1M-1M/1M-1M/1M-1M, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=64
>> ...
>> fio-2.13
>> Starting 16 processes
>> Jobs: 16 (f=16): [w(16)] [100.0% done] [0KB/1793MB/0KB /s] [0/1793/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
>> file: (groupid=0, jobs=16): err= 0: pid=6328: Tue Aug 6 18:22:17 2019
>> write: io=52775MB, bw=1758.7MB/s, iops=1758, runt= 30009msec
> 
> Nice performance improvement!
> .
>