Re: [Qemu-devel] Block I/O optimizations

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Loic Dachary <address@hidden> wrote:
> I recently tried to figure out the best and easiest ways to increase block 
> I/O performances with qemu. Not being a qemu expert, I expected to find a few 
> optimization tricks. Much to my surprise, it appears that there are many 
> significant improvements being worked on. This is excellent news :-)
>
> However, I'm not sure I understand how they all fit together. It's probably 
> quite obvious from the developer point of view but I would very much 
> appreciate an overview of how dataplane, vhost-blk, ELVIS etc. should be used 
> or developed to maximize I/O performances. Are there documents I should read 
> ? If not, would someone be willing to share bits of wisdom ?

Hi Loic,
There will be more information on dataplane shortly.  I'll write up a
blog post and share the link with you.

Stefan