Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] vhost-nvme: new qemu nvme backend using nvme target

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/12/2015 00:20, Ming Lin wrote:
> qemu-nvme: 148MB/s
> vhost-nvme + google-ext: 230MB/s
> qemu-nvme + google-ext + eventfd: 294MB/s
> virtio-scsi: 296MB/s
> virtio-blk: 344MB/s
> 
> "vhost-nvme + google-ext" didn't get good enough performance.

I'd expect it to be on par of qemu-nvme with ioeventfd but the question
is: why should it be better?  For vhost-net, the answer is that more
zerocopy can be done if you put the data path in the kernel.

But qemu-nvme is already using io_submit for the data path, perhaps
there's not much to gain from vhost-nvme...

Paolo

> Still tuning.