Re: ublk-qcow2: ublk-qcow2 is available

Ming Lei
2022-10-13T01:51:17Z

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:15:28AM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 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

Yeah, I saw the option, previously when I tried io_uring via:

qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd11 -n --aio=io_uring $my_file

It complains that 'qemu-nbd: Invalid aio mode 'io_uring'' even though
that 'qemu-nbd --help' does say that io_uring is supported.

Today just tried it on Fedora 37, looks it starts working with
--aio=io_uring, but the IOPS is basically same with --aio=native, and
IO trace shows that io_uring is used by qemu-nbd.

Thanks,
Ming