Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-14 Thread Matthew Tippett
, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that I have removed the benchmark from discussion, we are now looking at semantics of small writes followed by ... And quoting from Dustin === I have tried this, exactly as you have described.  The tests took

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Tippett
No, it's an absurd assessment. You have additional layers of caching happening because you're running a guest from a filesystem on the host. Comments below. A benchmark running under a guest that happens do be faster than the host does not indicate anything. It could be that the

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-09 Thread Matthew Tippett
. Is that assessment correct? Regards, Matthew Original Message Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance From: Dustin Kirkland dustin.kirkl...@gmail.com To: Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws, Avi Kivity

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-07 Thread Matthew Tippett
be relevant for how they support their customers. Regards, Matthew Original Message Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance From: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws To: Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com Cc: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com, RW k

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-07 Thread Matthew Tippett
and upstream changes that may be relevant for how they support their customers. Regards, Matthew Original Message Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance From: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws To: Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com Cc: Avi Kivity

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-07 Thread Matthew Tippett
Original Message Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance From: Dustin Kirkland dustin.kirkl...@gmail.com To: Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com Cc: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com, RW k...@tauceti.net, kvm

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-07 Thread Matthew Tippett
Original Message Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance From: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com To: Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com Cc: Dustin Kirkland dustin.kirkl...@gmail.com, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws, RW k...@tauceti.net, kvm

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-29 Thread Matthew Tippett
performance From: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws To: Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com Cc: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com, RW k...@tauceti.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org Date: 09/29/2009 03:02 PM Matthew Tippett wrote: I have created a launchpad bug against qemu-kvm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-27 Thread Matthew Tippett
I have created a launchpad bug against qemu-kvm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/437473 Just re-iterating, my concern isn't so much performance, but integrity of stock KVM configurations with server or other workloads that expect sync fileIO requests to be

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-25 Thread Matthew Tippett
a...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/24/2009 10:49 PM, Matthew Tippett wrote: The test itself is a simple usage of SQLite. It is stock KVM as available in 2.6.31 on Ubuntu Karmic. So it would be the environment, not the test. So assuming that KVM upstream works as expected that would leave either 2.6.31

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
a synchronous write of the virtual device within the host? I don't think offering SQLite users a 10 fold increase in performance with no data integrity risks just by using KVM is a sane proposition. Regards... Matthew On 9/24/09, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/23/2009 06:58 PM, Matthew Tippett

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
. Regards... Matthew On 9/24/09, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/24/2009 03:31 PM, Matthew Tippett wrote: Thanks Avi, I am still trying to reconcile the your statement with the potential data risks and the numbers observed. My read of your response is that the guest sees a consistent view

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
that a 'correctly' configured KVM will not demonstrate this behaviour? http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ (or is already available in newer distributions of Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu. Regards... Matthew On 9/24/09, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/24/2009 03:31 PM, Matthew Tippett wrote

sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-23 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I would like to call attention to the SQLite performance under KVM in the current Ubuntu Alpha. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_2631_kvmnum=3 SQLite's benchmark as part of the Phoronix Test Suite is typically IO limited and is affected by both disk and filesystem