diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9385690..3d53ee1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ciborium",
  "clap",
  "criterion-plot",
+ "futures",
  "is-terminal",
  "itertools 0.10.5",
  "num-traits",
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
  "serde_json",
  "tinytemplate",
+ "tokio",
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
@@ -448,6 +450,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fs-hdfs3"
+version = "0.1.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0f38e500596a428817fd4fd8a9a21da32f4edb3250e87886039670b12ea02f5d"
+dependencies = [
+ "bindgen",
+ "cc",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+ "url",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures"
 version = "0.3.30"
@@ -634,6 +650,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "crc",
  "criterion",
  "env_logger",
+ "fs-hdfs3",
  "futures",
  "g2p",
  "gsasl-sys",
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 73d656d..1c2e8ff 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -71,4 +71,17 @@ cargo test -p hdfs-native --features token,kerberos,intergation-test
 ```
 
 ### Python tests
-See the [Python README](./python/README.md)
\ No newline at end of file
+See the [Python README](./python/README.md)
+
+## Running benchmarks
+Some of the benchmarks compare performance to the JVM based client through libhdfs via the fs-hdfs3 crate. Because of that, some extra setup is required to run the benchmarks:
+
+```bash
+export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=$(pwd)/crates/hdfs-native/target/test
+export CLASSPATH=$(hadoop classpath)
+```
+
+then you can run the benchmarks with
+```bash
+cargo bench -p hdfs-native --features benchmark,integration-test
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/Cargo.toml b/crates/hdfs-native/Cargo.toml
index fbf2b85..f13240c 100644
--- a/crates/hdfs-native/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ prost-types = "0.12"
 roxmltree = "0.18"
 socket2 = "0.5"
 thiserror = "1"
-tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "net", "io-util", "macros", "sync", "time"] }
+tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread", "net", "io-util", "macros", "sync", "time"] }
 url = "2"
 users = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4"] }
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ prost-build = { version = "0.12", optional = true }
 protobuf-src = { version = "1.1", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.5"
+criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["async_tokio", "async_futures"] }
 env_logger = "0.10"
+fs-hdfs3 = "0.1.12"
 serial_test = "2.0.0"
 tempfile = "3"
 which = "4"
@@ -49,8 +50,16 @@ token = ["gsasl-sys"]
 
 generate-protobuf = ["prost-build", "protobuf-src"]
 integration-test = ["which"]
-benchmark = []
+benchmark = ["which"]
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "ec"
 harness = false
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "io"
+harness = false
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "rpc"
+harness = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/benches/io.rs b/crates/hdfs-native/benches/io.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16094a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/benches/io.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+
+use bytes::{Buf, BufMut, BytesMut};
+use criterion::*;
+use hdfs::hdfs::get_hdfs;
+use hdfs_native::{minidfs::MiniDfs, Client, WriteOptions};
+
+async fn write_file(client: &Client, ints: usize) {
+    let mut writer = client
+        .create("/bench", WriteOptions::default())
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let mut data = BytesMut::with_capacity(ints * 4);
+    for i in 0..ints {
+        data.put_u32(i as u32);
+    }
+    writer.write(data.freeze()).await.unwrap();
+    writer.close().await.unwrap();
+}
+
+fn bench(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let _ = env_logger::builder().is_test(true).try_init();
+
+    let _dfs = MiniDfs::with_features(&HashSet::new());
+    let client = Client::default();
+
+    let ints_to_write: usize = 128 * 1024 * 1024; // 128 MiB file
+
+    let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+        .unwrap();
+
+    rt.block_on(async { write_file(&client, ints_to_write).await });
+
+    let fs = get_hdfs().unwrap();
+
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("read");
+    group.throughput(Throughput::Bytes((ints_to_write * 4) as u64));
+    group.sample_size(10);
+
+    let reader = rt.block_on(client.read("/bench")).unwrap();
+    group.bench_function("read-native", |b| {
+        b.to_async(&rt).iter(|| async {
+            // let reader = client.read("/bench").await.unwrap();
+
+            reader.read_range(0, reader.file_length()).await.unwrap()
+        })
+    });
+    group.sample_size(10);
+    group.bench_function("read-libhdfs", |b| {
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut buf = BytesMut::zeroed(ints_to_write * 4);
+            let mut bytes_read = 0;
+            let fs = get_hdfs().unwrap();
+            let reader = fs.open("/bench").unwrap();
+
+            while bytes_read < ints_to_write * 4 {
+                bytes_read += reader
+                    .read(&mut buf[bytes_read..ints_to_write * 4])
+                    .unwrap() as usize;
+            }
+            reader.close().unwrap();
+            buf
+        })
+    });
+
+    let mut data_to_write = BytesMut::with_capacity(ints_to_write * 4);
+    for i in 0..ints_to_write {
+        data_to_write.put_i32(i as i32);
+    }
+
+    let buf = data_to_write.freeze();
+
+    drop(group);
+
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("write");
+    group.throughput(Throughput::Bytes((ints_to_write * 4) as u64));
+    group.sample_size(10);
+
+    group.bench_function("write-native", |b| {
+        b.to_async(&rt).iter(|| async {
+            let mut writer = client
+                .create("/bench-write", WriteOptions::default().overwrite(true))
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+
+            writer.write(buf.clone()).await.unwrap();
+            writer.close().await.unwrap();
+        })
+    });
+
+    group.sample_size(10);
+    group.bench_function("write-libhdfs", |b| {
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut buf = buf.clone();
+            let writer = fs.create_with_overwrite("/bench-write", true).unwrap();
+
+            while buf.remaining() > 0 {
+                let written = writer.write(&buf[..]).unwrap();
+                buf.advance(written as usize);
+            }
+            writer.close().unwrap();
+        })
+    });
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, bench);
+criterion_main!(benches);
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/benches/rpc.rs b/crates/hdfs-native/benches/rpc.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b7cd29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/benches/rpc.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+
+use criterion::*;
+use hdfs::hdfs::get_hdfs;
+use hdfs_native::{minidfs::MiniDfs, Client, WriteOptions};
+
+fn bench(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let _ = env_logger::builder().is_test(true).try_init();
+
+    let _dfs = MiniDfs::with_features(&HashSet::new());
+    let client = Client::default();
+
+    let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+        .unwrap();
+
+    rt.block_on(async {
+        client
+            .create("/bench", WriteOptions::default())
+            .await
+            .unwrap()
+            .close()
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+    });
+
+    let fs = get_hdfs().unwrap();
+
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("rpc");
+    group.bench_function("getFileInfo-native", |b| {
+        b.to_async(&rt)
+            .iter(|| async { client.get_file_info("/bench").await.unwrap() })
+    });
+    group.bench_function("getFileInfo-libhdfs", |b| {
+        b.iter(|| fs.get_file_status("/bench").unwrap())
+    });
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, bench);
+criterion_main!(benches);
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/block_reader.rs b/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/block_reader.rs
index 1f09996..8f2729d 100644
--- a/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/block_reader.rs
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/block_reader.rs
@@ -93,13 +93,16 @@ impl ReplicatedBlockStream {
     }
 
     async fn next_packet(&mut self) -> Result<Option<Bytes>> {
-        if self.len == 0 {
-            return Ok(None);
-        }
         if self.connection.is_none() {
             self.select_next_datanode().await?;
         }
         let conn = self.connection.as_mut().unwrap();
+
+        if self.len == 0 {
+            conn.send_read_success().await?;
+            return Ok(None);
+        }
+
         let packet = conn.read_packet().await?;
 
         let packet_offset = if self.offset > packet.header.offset_in_block as usize {
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/connection.rs b/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/connection.rs
index 3879fb6..7072010 100644
--- a/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/connection.rs
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/src/hdfs/connection.rs
@@ -587,6 +587,20 @@ impl DatanodeConnection {
         Ok(Packet::new(header, checksum, data))
     }
 
+    pub(crate) async fn send_read_success(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+        let client_read_status = hdfs::ClientReadStatusProto {
+            status: hdfs::Status::ChecksumOk as i32,
+        };
+
+        self.stream
+            .write_all(&client_read_status.encode_length_delimited_to_vec())
+            .await?;
+        self.stream.flush().await?;
+        self.stream.shutdown().await?;
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
     pub(crate) fn split(self) -> (DatanodeReader, DatanodeWriter) {
         let (reader, writer) = self.stream.into_inner().into_split();
         let reader = DatanodeReader {
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/src/lib.rs b/crates/hdfs-native/src/lib.rs
index 74c62d2..e447943 100644
--- a/crates/hdfs-native/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/src/lib.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ pub(crate) mod ec;
 pub(crate) mod error;
 pub mod file;
 pub(crate) mod hdfs;
-#[cfg(feature = "integration-test")]
+#[cfg(any(feature = "integration-test", feature = "benchmark"))]
 pub mod minidfs;
 pub(crate) mod proto;
 pub(crate) mod security;
diff --git a/crates/hdfs-native/src/minidfs.rs b/crates/hdfs-native/src/minidfs.rs
index 2a4decd..8bc0389 100644
--- a/crates/hdfs-native/src/minidfs.rs
+++ b/crates/hdfs-native/src/minidfs.rs
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ impl MiniDfs {
         };
 
         env::set_var("HADOOP_CONF_DIR", "target/test");
-
         MiniDfs {
             process: child,
             url: url.to_string(),