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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-dm: add command to flush buffer cache
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:13:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120113121334.GA20030@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1201131029270.3150@kaball-desktop>

On Fri, Jan 13, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

> I guess it is not possible to send the usual ioreq with type ==
> IOREQ_TYPE_INVALIDATE because the pager is separate from the hypervisor,
> correct?

Maybe send_invalidate_req() could be triggerd by the pager in some way?
Andres sent a patch to move from domctl to memop. Maybe the paging part
of it could be extended to issue another command which just calls
send_invalidate_req(). If thats possible, then I assume the upstream
qemu does not need changing as well.

Olaf

      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-13 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 18:22 [PATCH] qemu-dm: add command to flush buffer cache Olaf Hering
2012-01-12 18:30 ` Olaf Hering
2012-01-13 10:35   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-13 10:31 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-13 12:13   ` Olaf Hering [this message]

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