From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] vhost-blk implementation
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:59:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100405195912.GA17589@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAB7AA8.8030509@shiftmail.org>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 04:00:56PM +0100, Asdo wrote:
> Would the loop device provide the features of a block device? I recall
> barrier support at least has been added recently.
It does, but not in a very efficient way.
> Is it recommended to run kvm on a loopback mounted file compared to on a
> raw file?
No.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-05 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 1:00 [RFC] vhost-blk implementation Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-23 1:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-23 1:45 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-23 2:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-23 2:50 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-23 10:05 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-23 14:48 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-23 10:03 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-23 14:55 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-23 16:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-24 20:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-25 6:29 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 15:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-25 15:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 15:00 ` Asdo
2010-04-05 19:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-04-07 0:36 ` [RFC] vhost-blk implementation (v2) Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-23 10:09 ` [RFC] vhost-blk implementation Eran Rom
2010-03-24 20:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-24 20:22 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-25 7:57 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 14:36 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-25 15:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-26 18:53 ` Eran Rom
2010-04-08 16:17 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-05 19:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-04-05 23:17 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-24 20:27 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-29 15:41 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-29 18:20 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-29 20:37 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-29 22:51 ` Badari Pulavarty
2010-03-29 23:56 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-30 12:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 14:22 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-06 2:27 ` Badari Pulavarty
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