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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] make sure disk writes actually hit disk
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:01:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607282201.09092.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CA76E6.4050702@redhat.com>

> > Have you measured the impact of O_SYNC? I wouldn't be surprised if it was
> > significant.
>
> I suspect it'll be horrific in the qemu codebase (blocking execution
> of the guest OS until disk IO is complete), but it's fine in the Xen
> qemu-dm situation, where IO completion happens asynchronously.
>
> The recent commit message on the Xen side did not suggest there was
> that much of a difference between both qemu code bases.  Obviously
> I was wrong, and the O_SYNC bandaid should probably be kept out for
> now.

Ah, ok. I didn't realise they'd diverged that much either.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-28 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-28 19:54 [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] make sure disk writes actually hit disk Rik van Riel
2006-07-28 19:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2006-07-28 20:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-07-28 20:18   ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-28 20:30     ` Paul Brook
2006-07-28 20:43       ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-28 21:01         ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-07-31  7:08     ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-29  9:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Fabrice Bellard
2006-07-29 14:59   ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-29 16:04     ` Paul Brook
2006-07-29 16:22       ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-29 16:31         ` Paul Brook
2006-07-31  7:08           ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-29 17:33     ` Bill C. Riemers
2006-07-30 21:47       ` Jamie Lokier
2006-07-30 21:41     ` Jamie Lokier
2006-07-31  9:52       ` andrzej zaborowski
2006-07-31 10:17         ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-31 17:50           ` andrzej zaborowski
2006-07-31  7:08     ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-31  7:56       ` Jonas Maebe
2006-07-31  8:18         ` Jens Axboe

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