From: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: backup_calculate_cluster_size does not consider source
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 12:18:00 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1868807950.27.1573039080274@webmail.proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37f72cb7-7085-3c40-7728-e41d59137b3b@redhat.com>
> And if it issues a smaller request, there is no way for a guest device
> to tell it “OK, here’s your data, but note we have a whole 4 MB chunk
> around it, maybe you’d like to take that as well...?”
>
> I understand wanting to increase the backup buffer size, but I don’t
> quite understand why we’d want it to increase to the source cluster size
> when the guest also has no idea what the source cluster size is.
Because it is more efficent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-06 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-05 10:02 backup_calculate_cluster_size does not consider source Dietmar Maurer
2019-11-06 8:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-06 9:37 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 10:18 ` Dietmar Maurer
2019-11-06 10:37 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 10:34 ` Wolfgang Bumiller
2019-11-06 10:42 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 11:18 ` Dietmar Maurer [this message]
2019-11-06 11:22 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 11:37 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 13:09 ` Dietmar Maurer
2019-11-06 13:17 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 13:34 ` Dietmar Maurer
2019-11-06 13:52 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-06 14:39 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
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