[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu (cvs-version) performance?

[Sven Köhler]

>> I thought, that qemu-0.8.0's problem would be disk-IO. I installed
>> Windows 2000 and in the task-manager the CPU-Time is 100% during intense
>> IO. A "dir c:\ /A /S /B >NUL:" on the console causes 100% CPU-time and
>> most of it being that red-colored "in-kernel-time".
> 
> Qemu host IO is syncrhonous. ie. the guest is paused on the instruction that 
> issues the IO until the IO completes. As for as the guest is concerned it 
> happens instantly. This is all your test shows.

I have seen thoughts about asynchronous IO for qemu. I thought that they
would have been integrated along with the DMA-patches already.

I would really see how qemu performs with asynch IO enabled. Are there
any patches out there?


Greetings
  Sven