On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:13 PM Alessio Balsini <balsini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The first benchmarks were done by running FIO (fio-3.21) with: > - bs=4Ki; > - file size: 50Gi; > - ioengine: sync; > - fsync_on_close: true. > The target file has been chosen large enough to avoid it to be entirely > loaded into the page cache. > Results are presented in the following table: > > +-----------+--------+-------------+--------+ > | Bandwidth | FUSE | FUSE | Bind | > | (KiB/s) | | passthrough | mount | > +-----------+--------+-------------+--------+ > | read | 468897 | 502085 | 516830 | > +-----------+--------+-------------+--------+ > | randread | 15773 | 26632 | 21386 | Have you looked into why passthrough is faster than native? Thanks, Miklos