From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
benoit.canet@irqsave.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
armbru@redhat.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] block: Introduce "null" driver
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:53:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140829155320.GA20193@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409274040-20304-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 09:00:40AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> This is an analogue to Linux null_blk. It can be used for testing or
> benchmarking block device emulation and general block layer
> functionalities such as coroutines and throttling, where disk IO is not
> necessary or wanted.
>
> Use null:// for AIO version, and null-co:// for coroutine version.
Looks fine but please call them null-aio:// and null-co:// so it's 100%
clear what they do.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 1:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] block: Introduce "null" driver Fam Zheng
2014-08-29 15:53 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-29 15:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
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