linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikkgsZFLq-X0L2mzKucJetGyOmJNQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:33:16 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@...il.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2

Hi Ingo,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>  - executing AIO in the vcpu thread eats up precious vcpu execution
>   time: combined QCOW2 throughput would be limited by a single
>   core's performance, and any time spent on QCOW2 processing would
>   not be spent running the guest CPU. (In such a model we certainly
>   couldnt do more intelligent, CPU-intense storage solutions like on
>   the fly compress/decompress of QCOW2 data.)

Most image formats have optional on-the-fly compression/decompression
so we'd need to keep the current I/O thread scheme anyway.

> I'd only consider KAIO it if it provides some *real* measurable
> performance advantage of at least 10% in some important usecase.
> A few percent probably wouldnt be worth it.

I've only been following AIO kernel development from the sidelines but
I really haven't seen any reports of significant gains over
read()/write() from a thread pool. Are there any such reports?

                          Pekka
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