On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:16:24PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> A major source of performance loss for virtio-blk has been the fact that we
> split transfers into multiple requests.  This is particularly harmful if you
> have striped storage beneath your virtual machine.
> 
> This patch copies the request data into a single contiguous buffer to ensure
> that we don't split requests.  This improves performance from about 80 MB/sec
> to about 155 MB/sec with my fibre channel link.  185 MB/sec is what we get on
> native so this gets us pretty darn close.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Looks good.

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