From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problems KVM-84 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:52:30 +0200 Message-ID: <49B7D02E.1010307@redhat.com> References: <49B79D50.4090300@redhat.com> <49B7C6BF.6030803@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jay Mann , Uri Lublin , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51932 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752344AbZCKOwf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:52:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49B7C6BF.6030803@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> Scanning the file at startup is slow. We need to find a better way. > > Any quick ideas? Seems like this is broken by design. I agree. > Unless we can find a quick fix, I'm going to revert this in the stable > tree. We could cache the value in some unused area. Set it up in qemu-img. Don't support it on older images. But that's not a quick fix; I'd suggest reverting it in both stable and mainline, and re-applying in mainline when there's a fix. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function