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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Aloni <da-x@colinux.org>
Cc: Cooperative Linux Development 
	<colinux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: coLinux benchmarks
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:30:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040405143056.A5621@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040405131520.GA4395@callisto.yi.org>; from da-x@colinux.org on Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:15:20PM +0200

> The VM shows better results than the host. What gives? Perhaps
> it is because of the combination of the host and guest's buffer 
> cache? I'd like to know about more percise benchmarking methods 
> for VMs.

How are the virtual disks for the VM implemented?  If you're doing
direct I/O these numbers are indeed strange.  If not OTOH that's
expected because even synchronous I/O in the guest is actually
async which makes it a lot faster.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-05 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-05 13:15 Dan Aloni
2004-04-05 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-04-05 14:05   ` Dan Aloni
2004-04-05 20:11 ` [coLinux-devel] " Eyal Lotem
2004-04-05 22:22   ` Dan Aloni
2004-04-06 13:45     ` Ian C. Blenke
2004-04-06 14:07       ` Dan Aloni
2004-04-05 23:21 ` ReactOS and CoLinux status Steven Edwards

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