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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-scsi vs. virtio-blk
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To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>

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.

Paolo