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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target |
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:48:02 +0000 |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:56:53PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Dan Kenigsberg a écrit :
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I have some newby's questions: is a speedup expected, comparing to ide
> >
> > We should have a speedup.
>
> Would you suggest where it could show? I was trying simple dd and
> bonnie++, and saw big variace between consequtive runs, but little
> change between mounting an image with if=ide and if=scsi. Was I doing
> something wrong?
Using dd is pretty useless as a benchmark. bonnie++ can work sometimes
if you tune the size of its I/O ops wrt to the amount of RAM in your
host and guest. The big variance is likely caused by doing small enough
I/O that the cache in either host or guest can buffer your data at times.
IOZone is a benchmark I find gives better results, though it does take a
hell of a long time to run. Tune IOZone params to do increasingly large
I/O chunks, so that it will exceed RAM in both host & guest & let it
repeat many times & you should get to some stable benchmark results.
There were some results at the last Xen summit comparing the IDE & SCSI
drivers in QEMU(KVM) against Xen paravirt - the SCSI results were very
impressive & significantly ahead of IDE.
http://xen.org/files/xensummit_4/xen_summit_2007_spring_hvm_charts_Harper.pdf
Regards,
Dan.
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target, Dan Kenigsberg, 2007/10/31