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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 16
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:45:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316104517.GA31038@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F5F8A.4080105@redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:38:02PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 12:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> Polling loops are an indication that something is wrong.
>>>      
>> Except when people suggest they are the right answer, qcow high
>> watermark ;-P
>>    
>
> I liked Anthony's suggestion of an lvm2 block format driver.  No polling.

I have done some work on linking the new lvm library to qemu to control
snapshotting.  But introducing a whole new block format seems like a lot
of duplication to me.


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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 16
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:45:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316104517.GA31038@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F5F8A.4080105@redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:38:02PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 12:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> Polling loops are an indication that something is wrong.
>>>      
>> Except when people suggest they are the right answer, qcow high
>> watermark ;-P
>>    
>
> I liked Anthony's suggestion of an lvm2 block format driver.  No polling.

I have done some work on linking the new lvm library to qemu to control
snapshotting.  But introducing a whole new block format seems like a lot
of duplication to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16  7:01 KVM call agenda for Mar 16 Chris Wright
2010-03-16  7:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Wright
2010-03-16  9:18 ` Juan Quintela
2010-03-16  9:18   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-03-16  9:29   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16  9:29     ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16  9:43     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16  9:43       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 10:31       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:31         ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:38         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 10:38           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 10:45           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-03-16 10:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-16 10:45           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:45             ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 11:16             ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 11:16               ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 15:05             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 15:05               ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 15:23               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 15:23                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 15:46                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 15:46                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 10:09     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:09       ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange

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