Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/12] savevm: icrease the IO_BUF_SIZE to improve the speed of savevm

[Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>]

On 26.3.2013 23:05, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 07:16 AM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>
> s/icrease/increase/ in the subject
>
> Some benchmark numbers in the commit message justifying your change
> would be nice.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   savevm.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/savevm.c b/savevm.c
>> index 3e3d5f8..532c1be 100644
>> --- a/savevm.c
>> +++ b/savevm.c
>> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void qemu_announce_self(void)
>>   /***********************************************************/
>>   /* savevm/loadvm support */
>>
>> -#define IO_BUF_SIZE 32768
>> +#define IO_BUF_SIZE 1 * 1024 * 1024
>
> Improperly parenthesized; needs to be:
>
> #define IO_BUF_SIZE (1 * 1024 * 1024)
>

I'm testing it now and it seems that there is no speed improvement.
I'll drop this patch from the series.

Both values makes first snapshot (means that there is no snapshot at 
all) in about 30s. Second snapshots takes about 320s and third snapshot 
after restarting qemu process takes the same as second snapshot.

Test enviroment is:
     guest:
         2G ram
         2 vcpus
         qcow2 disk image

     host:
         12G ram
         1cpu/4 core/8 threads
         ordinary 7200rpm/500G hdd