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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Matthew Tippett <tippettm@gmail.com>,
	Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, RW <kvm@tauceti.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: fallback to draining the queue if barrier ops are not supported
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:38:45 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD5F085.8040909@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255521788-24346-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Early implementations of virtio devices did not support barrier operations,
> but did commit the data to disk.  In such cases, drain the queue to emulate
> barrier operations.

Are there any implementation currently that actually supports barriers?
As far as I remember there's no way to invoke barriers from a user-space
application on linux, and this is how kvm/qemu is running on this OS.

Thanks!

/mjt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-25  7:00 sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance RW
2009-09-27 11:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-27 12:07   ` Matthew Tippett
2009-09-29 19:02     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29 19:32       ` Matthew Tippett
2009-09-29 20:46         ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-09-29 20:51         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 14:15           ` Matthew Tippett
2009-10-07 16:53           ` Matthew Tippett
2009-10-07 18:59             ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-10-07 19:31               ` Matthew Tippett
2009-10-07 20:12                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 21:01                   ` Matthew Tippett
2009-10-09  6:05                 ` Dustin Kirkland
     [not found]                 ` <4ACE0196.9010904@gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <d9c105ea0910082312n7218e1abhc69a2be660838e89@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                     ` <f28b49ce0910090425p385636c3he6dfb7595927d7e4@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-09 15:18                       ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-10-09 19:06                         ` Matthew Tippett
2009-10-11  9:16                           ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-13 22:37                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 11:03                               ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-14 12:03                                 ` [PATCH] virtio-blk: fallback to draining the queue if barrier ops are not supported Avi Kivity
2009-10-14 14:46                                   ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-14 16:53                                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-14 15:38                                   ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2009-10-14 15:46                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 13:41                                 ` sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 16:56                                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-14 17:02                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 22:54                                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-14 23:37                                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 12:17                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-15 12:36                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-19  5:56                                           ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-13 23:08                           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-14  2:09                             ` Matthew Tippett
2009-10-14  4:12                               ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-10-14 11:32                                 ` Matthew Tippett

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