From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] qmp: add NBD server commands
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:01:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031130100.GA19901@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50911D9E.7090408@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> qemu-nbd does support AIO in the latest versions. There's also
> --cache=MODE and --aio=MODE command-line options.
Oh true, it's just hidden behind coroutines. With --aio-native and
--nocache I actually get fairly reasonable performance out of it now.
> But if you need a QMP interface, adding it to qemu-nbd would really be a
> bad idea. :)
I don't nessecarily need QMP, I'm just looking for a way to create a
snapshot underneath an exported image.
> You can use qtest mode to get very close to this (even if you send
> stop/cont by mistake on the monitor, no code will actually run):
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -chardev file,id=null,path=/dev/null -qtest null
> -machine accel=qtest -m 1 -nodefaults -nographic
>
> but having a separate do-nothing target would probably be nicer...
> though Anthony may have different opinions.
That looks fairlt reasonable, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 14:52 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] Embedded NBD server Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/9] build: add QAPI files to the tools Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:31 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/9] qapi: add socket address types Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 23:56 ` Eric Blake
2012-10-02 9:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 11:39 ` Eric Blake
2012-10-02 12:27 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-02 14:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 15:27 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-02 15:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/9] qemu-sockets: add error propagation to inet_parse Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:34 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/9] qemu-sockets: add error propagation to Unix socket functions Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 17:17 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 19:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 23:05 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-02 6:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/9] qemu-sockets: return IPSocketAddress from inet_parse Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:36 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 6/9] qemu-sockets: add socket_listen, socket_connect, socket_parse Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:37 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 7/9] block: add close notifiers Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] qmp: add NBD server commands Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 2:50 ` Eric Blake
2012-10-02 12:37 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-31 11:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-31 12:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-31 13:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 9/9] hmp: " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:38 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] Embedded NBD server Luiz Capitulino
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