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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Add vhost-blk support
Il 17/07/2012 10:29, Asias He ha scritto:
> So, vhost-blk at least saves ~6 syscalls for us in each request.

Are they really 6? If I/O is coalesced by a factor of 3, for example
(i.e. each exit processes 3 requests), it's really 2 syscalls per request.

Also, is there anything we can improve? Perhaps we can modify epoll and
ask it to clear the eventfd for us (would save 2 reads)? Or
io_getevents (would save 1)?

> I guess you mean qemu here. Yes, in theory, qemu's block layer can be
> improved to achieve similar performance as vhost-blk or kvm tool's
> userspace virito-blk has. But I think it makes no sense to prevent one
> solution becase there is another in theory solution called: we can do
> similar in qemu.

It depends. Like vhost-scsi, vhost-blk has the problem of a crippled
feature set: no support for block device formats, non-raw protocols,
etc. This makes it different from vhost-net.

So it begs the question, is it going to be used in production, or just a
useful reference tool?

Paolo


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