docs: mention thread pool option for virtiofsd
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <liuwe@microsoft.com>
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@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ _Run virtiofsd_
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--log-level debug \
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--socket-path=/tmp/virtiofs \
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--shared-dir=/tmp/shared_dir \
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--cache=never
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--cache=never \
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--thread-pool-size=$N
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```
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The `cache=never` option is the default when using `virtiofsd` with
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@ -44,6 +45,10 @@ The `cache=always` option will allow the host page cache to be used, which can
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result in better performance for the guest's workload at the cost of increasing
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the footprint on host memory.
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The `thread-pool-size` option controls how many IO threads are spawned. For
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very fast storage like NVMe spawning enough worker threads is critical to
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getting an acceptable performance compared to native.
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### Kernel support
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Modern Linux kernels (at least v5.10) have support for virtio-fs. Use of older
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