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Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.3 -> tap:aio performance over nfs

To: C V <rayvittal-lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.3 -> tap:aio performance over nfs
From: Stefan de Konink <stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:48:27 +0100
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C V wrote:
It seems that 1. tap:aio causes synchronous writes to the nfs mount (6 writes, wait for ack, write 6 more etc) as opposed to NFSv3 async write
2. Each synchronous write writes very small blocks (4K bytes vs max of 32K 
bytes)

Then increase it ;)

Is there any configuration option to tweak this behavior to get 
better-performing async writes to the filer?

This is my big comparison table:

http://xen.bot.nu/benchmarks/virtueel.html


Stefan

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