improve vm disk performance with VZDiskImageSynchronizationModeFsync #1268
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Reason
The default disk attachment has a very poor disk performance (mainly when accessed via mmap).
From macOS 12 we have option to set cache and sync mode. Using VZDiskImageSynchronizationModeFsync provides a better performance and best-effort consistency as well.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzdiskimagesynchronizationmode/vzdiskimagesynchronizationmodefsync?language=objc
Some results
Commands
Results
Old
mmap - Read & Write IOPS ~52
sync - Read & write IOPS ~5200
With this PR
mmap - Read & Write IOPS ~3900
sync - Read & write IOPS ~5400