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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:24:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616092429.GA5484@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=mS43KwRG13ROmZX+HmbrPMVgV=g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:21:03AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> And btw, we use sync_file_range() 

Which doesn't help you at all.  sync_file_range is just a hint for VM
writeback, but never commits filesystem metadata nor the physical
disk's write cache.  In short it's a completely dangerous interface, and
that is pretty well documented in the man page.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-16  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-15 15:53 [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool v2 Pekka Enberg
2011-06-15 16:30 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-15 17:10   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-15 20:13     ` Prasad Joshi
2011-06-15 20:23       ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-15 20:49         ` Prasad Joshi
2011-06-15 21:53       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-15 22:04       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-15 22:07         ` Alexander Graf
2011-06-15 22:20           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-15 22:44             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-16  5:41               ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16  6:21                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16  9:24                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-06-16  9:34                     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16  9:48                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-16  9:57                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16  9:57                         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16 10:02                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-16 11:22                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16 11:25                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-16 11:40                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16 11:51                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-17  7:21                               ` Jeff Garzik
2011-06-16  5:45           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16  7:24             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16  7:33               ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16  8:07                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16  9:09               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-16  5:29         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-16  5:42           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-15 21:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-16 14:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-16 15:01   ` Asias He
2011-06-19  8:15     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-16 14:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16 22:50   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-17  1:03     ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-17  5:00       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-17 13:41         ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-17 13:45       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-17  5:11   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-17  7:31 ` justin

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