From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: lihuiba <magazine.lihuiba@163.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] guest sync and bdrv_co_flush
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:06:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141110120604.GD4158@noname.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e27237d.8773.14989687829.Coremail.magazine.lihuiba@163.com>
Am 07.11.2014 um 09:39 hat lihuiba geschrieben:
> Hi, all
>
> I'm a user of qemu/kvm, and I'm wondering some internals of qemu/kvm, so I'd
> better post it in
> this developer's mailing list.
>
> To be specific, I'm wondering how data is flushed to disk. Intuitively, when
> the guest issues a
> SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command in the SCSI layer, qemu/kvm should call bdrv_co_flush
> (),
> which will eventually call the block driver's bdrv_co_flush_to_os()
> and bdrv_co_flush_to_disk().
>
> But from simple grep-ing, I didn't find any calling to bdrv_co_flush() is
> responsible for SYNCHRONIZE
> CACHE. So, can you tell me how qemu/kvm ensures guest data be written on
> persistent storage?
The relevant code is in hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c, in the function
scsi_disk_emulate_command(), for 'case SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE:'.
The call chain from there is blk_aio_flush() -> bdrv_aio_flush() ->
bdrv_aio_flush_co_entry() -> bdrv_co_flush()
Kevin
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2014-11-07 8:39 [Qemu-devel] guest sync and bdrv_co_flush lihuiba
2014-11-10 12:06 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
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