Comment on Unmapped I/O improves userland direct disk performance by 35% ~ 135%Comments−pritambaral10yFrom the title, I thought Microsoft had sponsored an improvement in generic FreeBSD.From the revision, it seems the improvement is in a Hyper-V storage driver.−jlgaddis10yIndeed, Microsoft has done quite a bit of work towards increasing the performance of FreeBSD running on Azure / HyperV.−thegeomaster10yYes, they're doing this with Linux too. I recall reading an announcement about 20kLoC worth of their patches to the Linux mainline kernel, in order to improve performance on Hyper-V.
Comments
From the title, I thought Microsoft had sponsored an improvement in generic FreeBSD.
From the revision, it seems the improvement is in a Hyper-V storage driver.
Indeed, Microsoft has done quite a bit of work towards increasing the performance of FreeBSD running on Azure / HyperV.
Yes, they're doing this with Linux too. I recall reading an announcement about 20kLoC worth of their patches to the Linux mainline kernel, in order to improve performance on Hyper-V.