On Sun, 2017-03-26 at 09:17 -0400, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <p...@usb.ve> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2017-03-26 at 10:58 +0100, Bronek Kozicki wrote: > > > Assuming you use libvirt, make sure to use vCPU pinning. For disk > > > > access, try cache='writeback' io='threads'. If you switch to scsio-vfio, > > this will give you the ability to define queue length which might > > additionally improve IO. Also, try QCOW2 format for guest disk, it might > > enable some additional optimizations. However given you host seem to have > > little spare capacity, YMMV > > > > Thanks. I'm already using CPU pinning as I said. The disk options are > > both set to "hypervisor default" so I'll try changing them. I'd > > configured the guest disk as 'raw' assuming that would be faster than > > QCOW2 but I'll look into it. > > > > > > Here's a link with some benchmarks. If configured correctly, QCOW2 can be > more efficient than native i/o: > > http://jrs-s.net/2013/05/17/kvm-io-benchmarking/
Thanks, that's very useful. poc _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list vfio-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
