On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Kenni Lund <kenni@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I've done some benchmarking with the drivers on Windows XP SP3 32bit, > but it seems like using the VirtIO drivers are slower than the IDE drivers in > (almost) all cases. Perhaps I've missed something or does the driver still > need optimization? very interesting! it seems that IDE wins on all the performance numbers, but VirtIO always has lower CPU utilization. i guess this is guest CPU %, right? it would also be interesting to compare the CPU usage from the host point of view, since a lower 'off-guest' CPU usage is very important for scaling to many guests doing I/O. -- Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html