Re: [PATCH RESEND 5/5] vhost-blk: Add vhost-blk support

2012-07-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
Asias He writes: > vhost-blk is a in kernel virito-blk device accelerator. > > This patch is based on Liu Yuan's implementation with various > improvements and bug fixes. Notably, this patch makes guest notify and > host completion processing in parallel which gives about 60% performance > improv

Re: [PATCH RESEND 5/5] vhost-blk: Add vhost-blk support

2012-07-19 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:05:42AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Of course, the million dollar question is why would using AIO in the > kernel be faster than using AIO in userspace? Actually for me a more important question is how does it compare with virtio-blk dataplane? -- MST _

Re: [PATCH RESEND 5/5] vhost-blk: Add vhost-blk support

2012-07-19 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:05:42AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Asias He writes: > > > vhost-blk is a in kernel virito-blk device accelerator. > > > > This patch is based on Liu Yuan's implementation with various > > improvements and bug fixes. Notably, this patch makes guest notify and > > ho

Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages

2012-07-19 Thread Rafael Aquini
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 06:29:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:00:48 -0300 Rafael Aquini wrote: > > > > So the function needs a better name - one which communicates that it is > > > a balloon page *for the purposes of processing by the compaction code*. > > > Making the

Re: [RFC-v2 0/4] tcm_vhost+cmwq fabric driver code for-3.6

2012-07-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 19/07/2012 09:28, James Bottomley ha scritto: >> > INQUIRY responses (at least vendor/product/type) should not change. > INQUIRY responses often change for arrays because a firmware upgrade > enables new features and new features have to declare themselves, > usually in the INQUIRY data. What y