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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: tom.leiming@gmail.com, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/17] dataplane: optimization and multi virtqueue support
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:29:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F03DCE.3090909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EE6A45.9010400@redhat.com>

Il 15/08/2014 22:15, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto:
>> >                 | Random throughput | Sequential throughput
>> > ----------------+-------------------+-----------------------
>> > master          | 442 MB/s          | 730 MB/s
>> > base            | 453 MB/s          | 757 MB/s
>> > bypass (Ming)   | 461 MB/s          | 734 MB/s
>> > coroutine       | 468 MB/s          | 716 MB/s
>> > bypass (Paolo)  | 476 MB/s          | 682 MB/s
> This is pretty large, but it really smells like either a setup problem
> or a kernel bug...

Thinking more about the I/O scheduler, it could simply be that faster
I/O = less coalescing = more bios actually reaching the driver = less speed.

It should be possible to find if this is true using blktrace.

(The reason why sequential I/O is faster is coalescing in the I/O
scheduler).

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-17  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-05  3:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/17] dataplane: optimization and multi virtqueue support Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 01/17] qemu/obj_pool.h: introduce object allocation pool Ming Lei
2014-08-05 11:55   ` Eric Blake
2014-08-05 12:05     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-05 12:21       ` Eric Blake
2014-08-05 12:51         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-06  2:35     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 02/17] dataplane: use object pool to speed up allocation for virtio blk request Ming Lei
2014-08-05 12:30   ` Eric Blake
2014-08-06  2:45     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 03/17] qemu coroutine: support bypass mode Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 04/17] block: prepare for supporting selective bypass coroutine Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 05/17] garbage collector: introduced for support of " Ming Lei
2014-08-05 12:43   ` Eric Blake
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 06/17] block: introduce bdrv_co_can_bypass_co Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 07/17] block: support to bypass qemu coroutinue Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 08/17] Revert "raw-posix: drop raw_get_aio_fd() since it is no longer used" Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 09/17] dataplane: enable selective bypassing coroutine Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 10/17] linux-aio: fix submit aio as a batch Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 11/17] linux-aio: handling -EAGAIN for !s->io_q.plugged case Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 12/17] linux-aio: increase max event to 256 Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 13/17] linux-aio: remove 'node' from 'struct qemu_laiocb' Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 14/17] hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h: introduce VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 15/17] virtio-blk: support multi queue for non-dataplane Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 16/17] virtio-blk: dataplane: support multi virtqueue Ming Lei
2014-08-05  3:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 17/17] hw/virtio-pci: introduce num_queues property Ming Lei
2014-08-05  9:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/17] dataplane: optimization and multi virtqueue support Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-05  9:50   ` Ming Lei
2014-08-05  9:56     ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-05 10:50       ` Ming Lei
2014-08-05 13:59     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-05  9:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-05 10:00   ` Ming Lei
2014-08-05 11:44     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-05 13:48     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-05 14:47       ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-06  5:33         ` Ming Lei
2014-08-06  7:45           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-06  8:38             ` Ming Lei
2014-08-06  8:50               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-06 13:53                 ` Ming Lei
2014-08-06  8:48           ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-06  9:37             ` Ming Lei
2014-08-06 10:09               ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-06 11:28                 ` Ming Lei
2014-08-06 11:44                   ` Ming Lei
2014-08-06 15:40                   ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-07 10:27                     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-07 10:52                       ` Ming Lei
2014-08-07 11:06                         ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-07 13:03                           ` Ming Lei
2014-08-07 13:51                       ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-08 10:32                         ` Ming Lei
2014-08-08 11:26                           ` Ming Lei
2014-08-10  3:46             ` Ming Lei
2014-08-11 14:03               ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-12  7:53                 ` Ming Lei
2014-08-12 11:40                   ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-12 12:14                     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-11 19:37               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-12  8:12                 ` Ming Lei
2014-08-12 19:08                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-13  9:54                     ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-13 13:16                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-13 13:49                         ` Ming Lei
2014-08-14  9:39                           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-14 10:12                             ` Ming Lei
2014-08-15 20:16                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-13 10:19                     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-13 12:35                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-13  8:55                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-13 11:43                 ` Ming Lei
2014-08-13 12:35                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-13 13:07                     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-14 10:46                 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-15 10:39                   ` Ming Lei
2014-08-15 20:15                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-16  8:20                     ` Ming Lei
2014-08-17  5:29                     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-08-18  8:58                       ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-06  9:37           ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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