From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:41:01 +0300 Message-ID: <480C36FD.9090200@qumranet.com> References: <1208460412-27567-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <20080420154943.GB14268@shareable.org> <480B8EDC.6060507@qumranet.com> <200804201931.19561.javier@guerrag.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Javier Guerra Giraldez Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200804201931.19561.javier@guerrag.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Also, I'd presume that those that need 10K IOPS and above will not place >> their high throughput images on a filesystem; rather on a separate SAN LUN. >> > > i think that too; but still that LUN would be accessed by the VM's via one of > these IO emulation layers, right? > > Yes. Hopefully Linux aio. > or maybe you're advocating using the SAN initiator in the VM instead of the > host? > That works too, especially for iSCSI, but that's not what I'm advocating. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone