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List:       linux-btrfs
Subject:    Re: Poor performance with qemu
From:       Chris Mason <chris.mason () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-03-30 12:56:23
Message-ID: 20100330125623.GB13190 () think
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:18:03PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> Hi, I'm using KVM, and the virtual disk (a 20 GB file using the "raw"
> qemu format according to virt-manager and, of course, placed on a btrfs
> filesystem, running the latest mainline git) is awfully slow, no matter
> what OS is running inside the VM. The PCBSD installer says it's copying
> data at a 40-50 KB/s rate. Is someone using KVM and having better numbers
> than me? How can I help to debug this workload?

The problem is that qemu uses O_SYNC by default, which makes btrfs do
log commits for every write.

Once the O_DIRECT read patch is in, you can switch to that, or tell qemu
to use a writeback cache instead.

-chris

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