Re: [libvirt-users] io=native & io=threads

2017-01-17 Thread W Kern
On 1/17/2017 1:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Also note the io setting is only relevant for file/block device backed disks. ie if using the in-QEMU network client for RBD, Gluster, iSCSI, NFS, etc thenm the io setting has no effect at all so can be ignored. Ahh, that is important. We most

Re: [libvirt-users] io=native & io=threads

2017-01-17 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:52:08AM -0800, W Kern wrote: > Googling provides lots of interesting info on the use of these in various > situations such as SSD, number of VMs in the pool etc. > > What is the default in Libvirt (or is the default 'neither') Libvirt has no default policy - it just del

[libvirt-users] io=native & io=threads

2017-01-16 Thread W Kern
Googling provides lots of interesting info on the use of these in various situations such as SSD, number of VMs in the pool etc. What is the default in Libvirt (or is the default 'neither') Sincerely W Kern ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-use

[libvirt-users] io=native

2011-06-02 Thread Troels Arvin
Hello, Regarding KVM - in particular RHEL 6.1 x86_64: I just did a set of benchmarks comparing the effect of versus Using Oracle's "orion" tool with an XIV backend, I got: With io='native': Maximum Large MBPS=964.41 Maximum Small IOPS=11797 Minimum Small Latency=7.57 WithOUT io='native': Ma