Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Baysek
kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:28:45 PM Subject: Re: vhost-blk development On 04/20/2012 04:26 AM, Michael Baysek wrote: > Can you point me to the latest revision of the code and provide some > guidance on how to test it? I really would love to see if it helps. There

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-19 Thread Liu Yuan
On 04/20/2012 04:26 AM, Michael Baysek wrote: > Can you point me to the latest revision of the code and provide some > guidance on how to test it? I really would love to see if it helps. There is no latest revision, I didn't continue the development when I saw the sign that it wouldn't be acce

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Baysek
vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:38:39 PM Subject: Re: vhost-blk development On 04/12/2012 12:52 AM, Michael Baysek wrote: > In this particular case, I did intend to deploy these instances directly to > the ramdisk. I want to squeeze every drop of performance out of these &g

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-12 Thread Liu Yuan
On 04/12/2012 12:52 AM, Michael Baysek wrote: > In this particular case, I did intend to deploy these instances directly to > the ramdisk. I want to squeeze every drop of performance out of these > instances for use cases with lots of concurrent accesses. I thought it > would be possible to

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Michael Baysek wrote: > I am purposefully not using O_DIRECT since most workloads will not be using > it, although I did notice better performance when I did use it.  I did > already identify the page cache as a hinderance as well. If you do not use O_DIRECT in th

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Baysek
: "Stefan Hajnoczi" To: "Michael Baysek" Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:19:48 AM Subject: Re: vhost-blk development On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Michael Baysek wrote: > Well, I'm trying to determine which I/O method currently has the very l

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Michael Baysek wrote: > Well, I'm trying to determine which I/O method currently has the very least > performance overhead and gives the best performance for both reads and writes. > > I am doing my testing by putting the entire guest onto a ramdisk.  I'm > worki

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Baysek
e to take a look at. If you have any other thoughts, that would also be helpful. -Mike - Original Message - From: "Stefan Hajnoczi" To: "Michael Baysek" Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:55:26 AM Subject: Re: vhost-blk development On Mon, A

Re: vhost-blk development

2012-04-10 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Michael Baysek wrote: > Hi all.  I'm interested in any developments on the vhost-blk in kernel > accelerator for disk i/o. > > I had seen a patchset on LKML https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/28/175 but that is > rather old.  Are there any newer developments going on w

vhost-blk development

2012-04-09 Thread Michael Baysek
Hi all. I'm interested in any developments on the vhost-blk in kernel accelerator for disk i/o. I had seen a patchset on LKML https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/28/175 but that is rather old. Are there any newer developments going on with the vhost-blk stuff? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send