From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block-raw: Make cache=off default again
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:20:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3F8536.6090906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3F8238.8010903@codemonkey.ws>
Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Since the patch that suggested it woudl revert qcow2 to writeback caching, in
>> fact none of the drivers has had cache=off as default any more. This patch
>> restores the desired behaviour.
>>
>
> When has cache=off ever been the default?
>
> Moreover, why would we want to make it the default? A patch with this
> drastic of a change really need a more significant justification in the
> change log.
Hm, you're right. Why is everyone talking about cache=off being default
except for qcow2? This was confusing me. Not handling the default
explicitly but checking the negation of it in 'else if (!(bdrv_flags &
BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))' has done the rest.
Sorry, I take this patch back.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 11:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block-raw: Make cache=off default again Kevin Wolf
2009-06-22 11:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-22 11:44 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-22 11:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-22 12:32 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-22 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-22 12:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-23 10:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-23 11:46 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-24 21:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-25 7:31 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-22 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-22 13:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-22 13:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-22 13:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-22 13:20 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2009-06-22 14:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-22 13:23 ` Dor Laor
2009-06-22 13:29 ` Kevin Wolf
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