Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations

Avi Kivity
2008-04-21T06:41:01Z

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.

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