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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] native Linux AIO support revisited
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:50:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821145048.GB22645@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8E4F87.6070405@redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:40:55AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/20/2009 05:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Based on this I would recommend to include this patch, but not use it by
> >default for now.  After some testing I would suggest to enable it by
> >default for host devices and investigate a way to make it easily usable
> >for files, possibly including some kernel support to tell us which files
> >are "safe".
> >   
> 
> I like both the numbers and the patches.  But why disable by default?  
> Enabling for cache=none host devices only seems a safe choice.

I want to 

  a) get some more testing.  Especially from people who are better at
     testing than me and have a wider variety of hardware
  b) sort out the queue depth issue.  Which I'd really prefer to once
     the basic patch is in I don't have to work with a large patch
     stack.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 14:58 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] native Linux AIO support revisited Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-20 14:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] raw-posix: refactor AIO support Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-20 14:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] raw-posix: add Linux native " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-21  9:53   ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-21 14:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-21 15:35       ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-20 19:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] native Linux AIO support revisited Jamie Lokier
2009-08-21  7:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-21 14:50   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-08-21 15:38     ` Avi Kivity

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