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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 5x slower guest disk performance with virtio disk
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:27:12 +0000
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:16:22PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:55 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > So, about 2/3 of host speed now -- which is much better.  Is 2/3 about
> > normal or should I be looking for more? 
> 
> aio=native
> 
> Thats the qemu setting, I'm not sure where libvirt hides that.

  <disk  ...>
    <driver io='threads|native'/>
    ...
  </disk>

Regards,
Daniel
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