From: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extend e2fsprogs functionality to add EXT2_FLAG_DIRECT option
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:43:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4CA6A9.3030401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100112163828.GA14633@infradead.org>
On 01/12/2010 05:38 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Ok, I looked at the issue. The problem is that the Xen backend drivers
> are (as expected) utterly braindead and submit bios directly from the
> virtualization backed without using proper abstractions and thus
> bypassing all the cache coherency features in the fileystems (the block
> device nodes are just another mini-filesystem in that respect). So
> when you first have buffered access in the host pages may stay in cache
> and get overwritten directly on disk by a Xen guest, and once the guest
> is down the host may still use the now stale cached data.
>
> I would recommend to migrate your cutomers to KVM which uses the proper
> abtractions and thus doesn't have this problem. There's a reason after
> all why all the Xen dom0 mess never got merged to mainline.
>
So, do you think the problem is in the Xen backend drivers and to make
it working right in Xen the driver fix is needed?
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2010-01-12 16:38 ` [PATCH] extend e2fsprogs functionality to add EXT2_FLAG_DIRECT option Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-12 16:43 ` Michal Novotny [this message]
2010-01-12 16:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-12 16:51 ` Michal Novotny
2010-01-12 16:50 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-01-12 16:53 ` Michal Novotny
2010-01-12 16:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-12 16:59 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-01-12 17:00 ` Michal Novotny
2010-01-14 13:46 ` Michal Novotny
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