Re: [Balloon] IO performance numbers

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:16:02PM +0100, Wookey wrote:

> %CP is %CPU usage. So looks like flash acces is CPU limited as it's
> jammed at 99-100% on all tests.

Not necessarily.

The CPU isn't doing any heavy computations when it's accessing flash.
It's likely just stalling and possibly busy-waiting on flash I/O to
complete. You could probably underclock or overclock the CPU within
a fairly wide range of MhZes and you'd get the same bandwidth numbers.