[sheepdog] [PATCH] sheep: add support for using unix domain socket

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 08:58:58 CET 2012


At Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:31:43 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
> 
> On 11/02/2012 09:19 PM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> > This patch adds support for a unix domain socket for a connection
> > between qemu and local gateway.  You can use this feature with the
> > following syntax:
> > 
> >  $ qemu sheepdog:unix:<socket file>:<vdi name>
> > 
> > On my environment, the IOPS is improved from 3700/s to 4100/s against
> > one local sheep with 4 KB buffer size.
> 
> vditest should be updated too to work with unix sock?

Yes, I'll do it after this patch is merged.  As a workaround, we can
test a unix domain socket with vditest as follows.

  $ vditest unix:<sock path>:<vdiname>

Thanks,

Kazutaka



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