Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kvm tools: Add ioeventfd support

2011-05-29 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > In such cases it would *really* be useful, in addition of dumping > 80-100 raw numbers to summarize results and compare them for the > reader, as i suspect you've done already? Please don't keep it a > secret and don't force the reader to c

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kvm tools: Add ioeventfd support

2011-05-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sasha Levin wrote: > Benchmarks ran on a seperate (non boot) 1GB virtio-blk device, > formatted as ext4, using bonnie++. > > cmd line: > # bonnie++ -d temp/ -c 2 -s 768 -u 0 > > Before: > Version 1.96 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- > --Random- > Concurrency 2

[PATCH v2 1/4] kvm tools: Add ioeventfd support

2011-05-27 Thread Sasha Levin
ioeventfd is way provided by KVM to receive notifications about reads and writes to PIO and MMIO areas within the guest. Such notifications are usefull if all we need to know is that a specific area of the memory has been changed, and we don't need a heavyweight exit to happen. The implementation