propolis factory: might want to use pci-nvme instead of pci-virtio-block? #80
Description
I noticed the root disk for Propolis workers ends up being pci-virtio-block which definitely has not had attention in line with the last few months of nvme in Propolis. I don't know if it's so much different than nvme that it would matter much for CI jobs, but I don't know it's not important.
(I basically just see this as an excuse to stand up the bmat bits locally again and try out a real job with pci-nvme to see the difference. but if anyone else wants to try.. !)
a quick check on my workstation suggests that i can get upwards of 9k writes/sec (4k) with pci-nvme whereas pci-virtio-block hit a ceiling at around 7k writes/sec. throughput is frighteningly poor imo in both cases, but I can say that 'cause that's my problem :)