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From: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Matthew Tippett <tippettm@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> I believe that I have removed the benchmark from discussion, we are n=
ow
> looking at semantics of small writes followed by
=2E..
> And quoting from Dustin
>
> =3D=3D=3D
> I have tried this, exactly as you have described. =A0The tests took:
>
> =A0* 1162.08033204 seconds on native hardware
> =A0* 2306.68306303 seconds in a kvm using if=3Dscsi disk
> =A0* 405.382308006 seconds in a kvm using if=3Dvirtio

Hang on now...

My timings are from running the Phoronix test *as you described*.  I
have not looked at what magic is happening inside of this Phoronix
test.  I am most certainly *not* speaking as to the quality or
legitimacy of the test.

:-Dustin