From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
jcody@redhat.com, Zhi Hui Li <zhihuili@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] CoW image commit+shrink(= make_empty) support
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:01:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD5A5CB.8020609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD5A56E.1020701@redhat.com>
Il 11/06/2012 09:59, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>>>>> >>>> I agree, doing it like mirroring for new writes on the top layer makes
>>>>> >>>> sense, as long as you are willing to violate the (optional) speed
>>>>> >>>> parameter. I wouldn't think violating the speed parameter in that case
>>>>> >>>> would be an issue, as long as it is a documented affect of performing a
>>>>> >>>> live commit on the active (top) layer.
>>> >> The question is what the speed parameter really means for a live commit
>>> >> block job (or for an active mirror). I think it would make sense to
>>> >> limit only the speed of I/O that doesn't come from the guest but is from
>>> >> the background copying.
>> >
>> > Not necessarily, you can throttle the copying speed. If the I/O from
>> > the guest has bursts, you will pick up the work later when the rate
>> > calms down.
> Then it's not an active mirror any more, but a passive one.
Yes, I guess what I was saying is that the passive mirror code can be
used also for live commit of the top image.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-11 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 6:19 [Qemu-devel] CoW image commit+shrink(= make_empty) support Taisuke Yamada
2012-06-07 14:14 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-08 12:42 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-08 13:19 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-08 13:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-08 14:32 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-08 16:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-08 17:46 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-08 17:57 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-08 18:33 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-08 21:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-09 16:52 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-11 7:57 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-10 16:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-11 7:59 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-11 8:01 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-06-11 12:09 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-11 12:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-11 14:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-11 15:37 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-11 19:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-12 7:27 ` Zhi Hui Li
2012-06-12 10:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-13 10:56 ` Supriya Kannery
2012-06-14 14:23 ` Zhi Hui Li
2012-06-14 14:29 ` Jeff Cody
2012-06-14 18:28 ` Supriya Kannery
2012-06-15 21:01 ` Supriya Kannery
2012-06-10 16:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-08 10:39 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-09 11:21 ` Taisuke Yamada
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