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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Xu <xu.an@cloudex.cn>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: VM disk I/O limit patch
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:07:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110622130710.GA8216@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikGiuOAcyZhOTKpANkHktWMCrtjsw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> relying on DM is not advisable since this is yet another layer that
> breaks write barriers, plus it kills portability to non-linux OS.

How so? And write barriers don't exist anymore - I think you mean
flush support. And I believe they are fixed now - flush requests
are passed through to the bottom layer (the real disk). But let
me double check that shortly.

Portability to non-linux OS? ? What do you mean by that? As in using
this patch on NetBSD or OpenSolaris backend? The backend in those
OS-es is quite different so it wouldn't be "portable"

> 
> btw:
> It would be cool if a block shaping patch finally made it in the Xen
> mainline, since the last one that was submitted in 2009 was apparently
> forgotten...

Why can't dm-ioband do this for you? Hm, I don't remember seeing that patch
at all?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21  8:29 VM disk I/O limit patch Andrew Xu
2011-06-21 13:33 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-22 12:06   ` [Xen-users] " Andrew Xu
2011-06-22 13:11     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-22 14:12       ` Re[2]: " Andrew Xu
2011-06-22 14:39         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-24 14:29         ` Re[2]: " Ian Jackson
2011-06-22 12:16   ` Re: [Xen-devel] " Florian Heigl
2011-06-22 13:07     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-06-23 20:45 ` Shaun Reitan
2011-06-27 15:41   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-27 19:22     ` Shaun Reitan
2011-06-28 11:32     ` Re: [Xen-devel] " Florian Heigl
2011-06-28 13:29       ` [Xen-users] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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