Subject: Re: Updated Xen domain 0 benchmarking results
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.cuni.cz>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/28/2005 17:45:04
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:27:14 +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I ran again some dom0 benchmarking (NetBSD vs Linux).
> 
> http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/xendom0/xendom0.html

"The Linux loopback mount..."

What is a "loopback mount" under Linux? Don't you mean the "loop"
block device?

"...has poor performance under heavy I/O."

Sorry, but was it necessary to run benchmarks to discover this well
known and documented fact?

Bye	Pavel