On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:24:45AM -0800, Jeffrey C. Becker wrote:
> Hi. I ported Pavel Machek's userland nbd server to run as a kernel module,
> and Pavel was kind enough to make it available at his nbd website
> (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html). Please try it out!
>
> FYI, I ran bonnie to compare knbd to nbd (2 i386's running 2.3.18 kernel
> connected by fast ethernet, backing device is /dev/loop0 backed by a large
> file). Note knbd is slightly faster on block reads and about 50% faster on
> block writes.
Any idea why writes are so much faster given that reads are not? I cant think
of a good reason, which makes me think you may have discovered a bug in the
kernel.
Jim
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