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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Default cache mode
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:56:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110629135656.GE15863@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=ONYRPp1_RHRUkseDWcYAJXevZTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:52:19PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Whether it is safe to transition to cache=none or not depends on what
> broken guests are still widely deployed.  Does CentOS 5 flush the disk
> cache?

Unless you use ext3 it does.  The same unfortunate story still applies to
current Linux mainline.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-29 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-29 11:59 [Qemu-devel] Default cache mode Kevin Wolf
2011-06-29 12:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 12:16   ` Kevin Wolf
2011-06-29 12:23     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 12:32       ` Kevin Wolf
2011-06-29 13:51         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 14:17         ` Michael Tokarev
2011-06-29 14:50           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 15:07             ` Michael Tokarev
2011-06-29 13:50       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 14:13         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 14:47           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 16:03           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-29 13:53       ` Frediano Ziglio
2011-06-29 14:11         ` Kevin Wolf
2011-06-29 14:12           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 14:21             ` Kevin Wolf
2011-06-29 13:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 12:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 13:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 14:20     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 14:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-29 15:26         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 12:21 ` Alexander Graf
2011-06-29 13:57   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-29 14:05     ` Alexander Graf
2011-06-29 12:52 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-29 13:56   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-06-29 13:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-29 13:05   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-06-29 13:30     ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-29 13:11   ` Kevin Wolf

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