Re: [Qemu-devel] effect of cluster_size on qcow2 performance during expansion

2012-02-23 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:24 AM, PANKAJ RAWAT wrote: > Here are the reading taken through fio tool during write operation > > > Cluster size : 32K    587Mb/sec (aggrb MB/sec) > > > Cluster size : 64K    697Mb/sec (aggrb MB/sec) > > Cluster size : 1M     440Mb/sec  (aggrb MB/sec) > > > Cluster size

[Qemu-devel] effect of cluster_size on qcow2 performance during expansion

2012-02-23 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all I have been working on the qcow2 image format , In theory regarding cluster size it is written that as the size of cluster increase performance should increase. But something surprising happen The performance is degrading as the size of cluster increased from *64K* to *1M* or *2M* ( d