From: Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan@chromium.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-fs-list <virtio-fs@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Virtio-fs] tools/virtiofs: Multi threading seems to hurt performance
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:50:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFHJroSeg=Zk1VaHBzwurNTkziFzupiiVf_Y-2TDQ7nmdAERg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918213436.GA3520@redhat.com>
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 6:36 AM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> virtiofsd default thread pool size is 64. To me it feels that in most of
> the cases thread pool size 1 performs better than thread pool size 64.
>
> I ran virtiofs-tests.
>
> https://github.com/rhvgoyal/virtiofs-tests
>
> And here are the comparision results. To me it seems that by default
> we should switch to 1 thread (Till we can figure out how to make
> multi thread performance better even when single process is doing
> I/O in client).
>
FWIW, we've observed the same behavior in crosvm. Using a thread pool
for the virtiofs server consistently gave us worse performance than
using a single thread.
Chirantan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-23 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-18 21:34 tools/virtiofs: Multi threading seems to hurt performance Vivek Goyal
2020-09-18 21:34 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 8:39 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-21 8:39 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-21 13:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 13:39 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 16:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-21 16:57 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-21 8:50 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-21 8:50 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-21 13:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 13:35 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 14:08 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-21 14:08 ` [Virtio-fs] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-21 15:32 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-21 15:32 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-22 10:25 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-22 10:25 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-22 17:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-22 17:47 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-24 21:33 ` Venegas Munoz, Jose Carlos
2020-09-24 21:33 ` [Virtio-fs] " Venegas Munoz, Jose Carlos
2020-09-24 22:10 ` virtiofs vs 9p performance(Re: tools/virtiofs: Multi threading seems to hurt performance) Vivek Goyal
2020-09-24 22:10 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-25 8:06 ` virtiofs vs 9p performance Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 8:06 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 13:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-25 13:13 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-25 15:47 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 15:47 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-19 16:08 ` Can not set high msize with virtio-9p (Was: Re: virtiofs vs 9p performance) Vivek Goyal
2021-02-19 16:08 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2021-02-19 17:33 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-19 17:33 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-19 19:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-02-19 19:01 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2021-02-20 15:38 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-20 15:38 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-22 12:18 ` Greg Kurz
2021-02-22 12:18 ` [Virtio-fs] " Greg Kurz
2021-02-22 15:08 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-22 15:08 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-22 17:11 ` Greg Kurz
2021-02-22 17:11 ` [Virtio-fs] " Greg Kurz
2021-02-23 13:39 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-23 13:39 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-23 14:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-02-23 14:07 ` [Virtio-fs] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-02-24 15:16 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-24 15:16 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-24 15:43 ` Dominique Martinet
2021-02-24 15:43 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dominique Martinet
2021-02-26 13:49 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-26 13:49 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-02-27 0:03 ` Dominique Martinet
2021-02-27 0:03 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dominique Martinet
2021-03-03 14:04 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-03-03 14:04 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2021-03-03 14:50 ` Dominique Martinet
2021-03-03 14:50 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dominique Martinet
2021-03-05 14:57 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-03-05 14:57 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 12:41 ` virtiofs vs 9p performance(Re: tools/virtiofs: Multi threading seems to hurt performance) Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 12:41 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 13:04 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 13:04 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 13:05 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 13:05 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 16:05 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 16:05 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 16:33 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 16:33 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-25 18:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 18:51 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-27 12:14 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-27 12:14 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-29 13:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 13:03 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 13:28 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-29 13:28 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-29 13:49 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 13:49 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 13:59 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-29 13:59 ` [Virtio-fs] " Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-29 13:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 13:17 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 13:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-29 13:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-29 14:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 14:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 14:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-29 14:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-29 15:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-29 15:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-25 12:11 ` tools/virtiofs: Multi threading seems to hurt performance Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 12:11 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-25 13:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-25 13:11 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 20:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-21 20:16 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-22 11:09 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-22 11:09 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-22 22:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-22 22:56 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal
2020-09-23 12:50 ` Chirantan Ekbote [this message]
2020-09-23 12:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-09-25 11:35 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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