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From: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:02:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF2FB5D.5030102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF2F417.2010209@redhat.com>

On 07/03/2012 09:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 02/07/2012 08:41, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
>>> With the same workload in guest, the guest fires 200K requests to host
>>> with merges enabled in guest (echo 0 > /sys/block/vdb/queue/nomerges),
>>> while the guest fires 40000K requests to host with merges disabled in
>>> guest (echo 2 > /sys/block/vdb/queue/nomerges). This show that the merge
>>> in block layer reduces the total number of requests fire to host a lot
>>> (40000K / 200K = 20).
>>>
>
> 40000 / 200 is 200, not 20. :)

Crap, I wrote one more zero here. Actually, it is 4000K. So the factor 
is still 4000K/200k = 20 ;-)

-- 
Asias

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18  6:53 [PATCH v2 0/3] Improve virtio-blk performance Asias He
2012-06-18  6:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: Introduce __blk_segment_map_sg() helper Asias He
2012-06-18 21:31   ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-19  2:02     ` Asias He
2012-06-19 18:00       ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-18  6:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper Asias He
2012-06-18  6:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk Asias He
2012-06-18  7:46   ` Rusty Russell
2012-06-18  8:03     ` Asias He
2012-06-18 10:05       ` Rusty Russell
2012-06-18 11:14         ` Dor Laor
2012-06-18 11:39           ` Sasha Levin
2012-06-19  2:51             ` Asias He
2012-06-19  6:21               ` Dor Laor
2012-06-20  4:46                 ` Asias He
2012-06-21  9:49                   ` Dor Laor
2012-07-01 23:54               ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]               ` <87r4svxcjw.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-07-02  2:45                 ` Asias He
2012-07-02  6:41                   ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-03  0:39                     ` Asias He
2012-07-04  2:40                       ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-06  1:03                         ` Asias He
2012-07-03 13:31                     ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                     ` <4FF2F417.2010209@redhat.com>
2012-07-03 14:02                       ` Asias He [this message]
2012-07-03 14:22           ` Ronen Hod
2012-07-03 14:28             ` Dor Laor
2012-07-04 14:10               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-18 21:28         ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-19  2:39         ` Asias He
2012-06-18 10:13       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-19  2:21         ` Asias He
2012-06-18  9:37   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-18 10:21   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18 10:45     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-19  2:30     ` Asias He
2012-06-18  9:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Improve virtio-blk performance Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-18  9:39   ` Asias He
2012-06-18 10:58     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-19  4:24       ` Asias He
2012-06-19 10:14         ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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