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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Kaveh Razavi <kaveh@cs.vu.nl>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce cache images for the QCOW2 format
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:32:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130814153216.GN4583@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520B937D.6060105@cs.vu.nl>

Am 14.08.2013 um 16:26 hat Kaveh Razavi geschrieben:
> On 08/14/2013 03:50 PM, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > Assuming the cache quota is not exhausted, how do you know how that
> > a VM has finished 'creating' the cache? At any point it might
> > read a bit more from the backing image.
> 
> I was assuming on shutdown.

Wait, so you're not really changing the cache while it's used, but you
only create it once and then use it like a regular backing file?  If so,
the only thing we need to talk about is the creation, because there's no
difference for using it.

Creation can use the existing copy-on-read functionality, and the only
thing you need additionally is a way to turn copy-on-read off at the
right point.

Or do I misunderstand what you're doing?

Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13 17:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce cache images for the QCOW2 format Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-13 21:37 ` Eric Blake
2013-08-14 11:13   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-13 22:53 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 11:28   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 11:52     ` Fam Zheng
2013-08-14 12:03       ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 15:58         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-15  0:53         ` Fam Zheng
2013-08-15  5:51           ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 11:57     ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 13:37       ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-13 23:16 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 11:42   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 12:02     ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 13:43       ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 13:50         ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 14:26           ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 15:02             ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 15:32             ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2013-08-15  7:50               ` Wenchao Xia
2013-08-15  8:11               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14  9:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14 14:20   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-15  8:32     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-15 12:25       ` Kaveh Razavi

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