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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Dimitris Aragiorgis <dimara@arrikto.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] Fix migration in case of scsi-generic
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:21:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5554A147.1050800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150514110234.GA2964@arr>



On 14/05/2015 13:02, Dimitris Aragiorgis wrote:
> Also note that QEMU seems to flush the disk cache explicitly in
> case of iSCSI, using iscsi_synchronizecache10_task() from libiscsi
> inside iscsi_co_flush().

Right, QEMU does that if type is DISK only.

> Perhaps we can also extend this approach to scsi-generic e.g. by
> calling sg_ll_sync_cache_10() from libsgutils2. This is a distinct,
> orthogonal patch that could be added in the future.

Yes.  But do not use libsgutils2, just do it manually in QEMU.  See
for example get_stream_blocksize in hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-08 17:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Some fixes related to scsi-generic Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-08 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] block: Use bdrv_is_sg() everywhere Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-11 10:04   ` Kevin Wolf
2015-05-08 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] Fix migration in case of scsi-generic Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-11 10:12   ` Kevin Wolf
2015-05-14 11:02     ` Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-14 13:21       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-05-08 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] raw-posix: DPRINTF instead of DEBUG_BLOCK_PRINT Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-08 20:10   ` Eric Blake
2015-05-11 16:52     ` Eric Blake
2015-05-11 10:16   ` Kevin Wolf
2015-05-11 10:21     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-08 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] raw-posix: Use DPRINTF for DEBUG_FLOPPY Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-11 10:19   ` Kevin Wolf
2015-05-08 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] raw-posix: Introduce hdev_is_sg() Dimitris Aragiorgis
2015-05-10 14:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Some fixes related to scsi-generic Paolo Bonzini

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