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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	lcapitulino@redhat.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] qmp: add NBD server commands
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:01:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031130100.GA19901@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50911D9E.7090408@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> qemu-nbd does support AIO in the latest versions.  There's also
> --cache=MODE and --aio=MODE command-line options.

Oh true, it's just hidden behind coroutines.  With --aio-native and
--nocache I actually get fairly reasonable performance out of it now.

> But if you need a QMP interface, adding it to qemu-nbd would really be a
> bad idea. :)

I don't nessecarily need QMP, I'm just looking for a way to create a
snapshot underneath an exported image.

> You can use qtest mode to get very close to this (even if you send
> stop/cont by mistake on the monitor, no code will actually run):
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -chardev file,id=null,path=/dev/null -qtest null
> -machine accel=qtest -m 1 -nodefaults -nographic
> 
> but having a separate do-nothing target would probably be nicer...
> though Anthony may have different opinions.

That looks fairlt reasonable, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-01 14:52 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] Embedded NBD server Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/9] build: add QAPI files to the tools Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:31   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/9] qapi: add socket address types Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 23:56   ` Eric Blake
2012-10-02  9:00     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 11:39       ` Eric Blake
2012-10-02 12:27         ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-02 14:24           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 15:27             ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-02 15:31               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:32   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/9] qemu-sockets: add error propagation to inet_parse Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:34   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/9] qemu-sockets: add error propagation to Unix socket functions Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 17:17   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 19:07     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 23:05       ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-02  6:09         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/9] qemu-sockets: return IPSocketAddress from inet_parse Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:36   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 6/9] qemu-sockets: add socket_listen, socket_connect, socket_parse Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:37   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 7/9] block: add close notifiers Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] qmp: add NBD server commands Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02  2:50   ` Eric Blake
2012-10-02 12:37   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-31 11:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-31 12:46     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-31 13:01       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-10-01 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 9/9] hmp: " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-02 12:38   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-01 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] Embedded NBD server Luiz Capitulino

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