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Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk and virtio-scsi performance comparison
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk and virtio-scsi performance comparison |
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Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:04:18 +0200 |
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On 16/04/2015 03:27, Fam Zheng wrote:
>
> virtio-scsi, on the other hand, provides more features and means to be more
> scalable (you won't need to painfully mess with pci bridges to attach 1000
> disks).
>
> Anyway, we are working on improving virtio-scsi performance, although it's
> theoretically impossible to make it faster or even equally fast.
>
> Regarding your test, I think with current code base, it generally performs
> better if you use io=native. Have you compared that?
Also, make sure you're using the deadline scheduler in both host and guest.
Paolo