Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2012-04-02

Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Drop unused request tracking list

From: Asias He <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-31 10:22:17
Also in: kvm

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Hi, Stefan

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi [off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Asias He [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Benchmark shows small performance improvement on fusion io device.

Before:
 seq-read : io=1,024MB, bw=19,982KB/s, iops=39,964, runt= 52475msec
 seq-write: io=1,024MB, bw=20,321KB/s, iops=40,641, runt= 51601msec
 rnd-read : io=1,024MB, bw=15,404KB/s, iops=30,808, runt= 68070msec
 rnd-write: io=1,024MB, bw=14,776KB/s, iops=29,552, runt= 70963msec

After:
 seq-read : io=1,024MB, bw=20,343KB/s, iops=40,685, runt= 51546msec
 seq-write: io=1,024MB, bw=20,803KB/s, iops=41,606, runt= 50404msec
 rnd-read : io=1,024MB, bw=16,221KB/s, iops=32,442, runt= 64642msec
 rnd-write: io=1,024MB, bw=15,199KB/s, iops=30,397, runt= 68991msec

Signed-off-by: Asias He <redacted>
---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   10 ----------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Thanks for providing performance results.  It's a bit scary that this
unused list has an impact...I'm sure we have worse things elsewhere in
the KVM storage code path.
Do you find any worse things? I saw your trace work here:

   http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio/Block/Latency
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <redacted>
Thanks for reviewing!

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Asias He
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