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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-aio usable?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:48:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B94C806.9000209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100308094801.GA24943@schleppi.birkenwald.de>

On 03/08/2010 11:48 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>    
>>> Are there any potential pitfalls?
>>>        
>> It won't work well unless running on a block device (partition or LVM).
>>      
> What does "work well" mean in this context? Potential dataloss?
>
>    

No, it becomes synchronous (=extra slow).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08  1:46 linux-aio usable? Bernhard Schmidt
2010-03-08  9:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08  9:48   ` Bernhard Schmidt
2010-03-08  9:48     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-03-08 14:25       ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-08 14:26         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08 16:28           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-08 16:36             ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08 13:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-08 20:11   ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-08 20:19     ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09  9:08       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09  9:19         ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09 10:05           ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:12             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-08 21:27   ` Nikola Ciprich
2010-03-08 21:46     ` Brian Jackson
2010-03-09  9:09     ` Avi Kivity

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