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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, jcody@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] curl: fix curl read
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:22:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130514082253.GG3632@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368498390-20738-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:26:19AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
>  - CURLDataCache holds the user data read from libcurl, it is in a list
>    ordered by access, the used cache is moved to list head on access, so
>    the tail element is freed first. BDRVCURLState.cache_quota is the
>    threshold to start freeing cache.

Can you explain the need for a cache?

The guest kernel already does readahead if it wants to.  It can be tuned
from inside the guest if performance doesn't meet expectations.  The
block/curl.c-specific cache cannot be tuned from the guest.

Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-14  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-14  2:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] curl: fix curl read Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] curl: introduce CURLSockInfo to BDRVCURLState Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  7:59   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] curl: change magic number to macro Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  8:04   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] curl: change curl_multi_do to curl_fd_handler Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/11] curl: fix curl_open Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  8:13   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/11] curl: add timer to BDRVCURLState Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/11] curl: introduce CURLDataCache Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] curl: make use of CURLDataCache Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/11] curl: use list to store CURLState Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] curl: release everything on curl_close Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  8:20   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] curl: add cache quota Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/11] curl: introduce ssl_no_cert runtime option Fam Zheng
2013-05-14  8:22 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2013-05-14  8:50   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] curl: fix curl read Fam Zheng
2013-05-15  3:46   ` Fam Zheng
2013-05-15  7:56     ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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