zfs-fio-sync KVM testing on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. volblocksize=8k: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218R (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 215GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochs-drmdrmfb, Monitor: QEMU Monitor, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 313 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 309 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 4.571 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 1139 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 8KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 23.6 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 8KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 3062 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 35.6 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 2275 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 32KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 48.7 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 32KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 1556 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 70.0 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 1116 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 128KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 110.9 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 128KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 884 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 256KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 125 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 256KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 498 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 220 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.25 Type: Random Write - Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better volblocksize=8k . 435 |========================================================