Re: ublk-qcow2: ublk-qcow2 is available

Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-10-12T14:15:54Z

On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 06:14, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 09:53:32AM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > qemu-nbd doesn't use io_uring to handle the backend IO,
>
> Would this be fixed by your (not yet upstream) libblkio driver for
> qemu?

I was wrong, qemu-nbd has syntax to use io_uring:

$ qemu-nbd ... --image-opts driver=file,filename=test.img,aio=io_uring

The new libblkio driver will also support io_uring, but QEMU's
built-in io_uring support is already available and can be used as
shown above.

Stefan