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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com, eblake@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qemu-img bench: Add --flush-interval
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 17:16:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160603151621.GC5712@noname.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57519BBE.5040204@openvz.org>

Am 03.06.2016 um 17:01 hat Denis V. Lunev geschrieben:
> On 06/03/2016 03:30 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >This options allows to flush the image periodically during write tests.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> This pattern could be a bit different - you wait requests to finish
> and after that start flush. In this case there is no gain with my
> patch ;)
> 
> You should treat flush as ordinary write request i.e. place
> request immediately without waiting for writes to finish.
> May be this could be specified as an operation mode.

Hm, okay, I can try that.

What OS is running on your guest? Because I seem to remember that Linux
drains the queue before sending a flush command. This is why I
implemented it this way here. Maybe it changed in Linux, though.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03 12:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] block: Introduce qemu-img bench Kevin Wolf
2016-06-03 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] " Kevin Wolf
2016-06-06  9:59   ` Denis V. Lunev
2016-06-03 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] qemu-img bench: Sequential writes Kevin Wolf
2016-06-03 14:55   ` Denis V. Lunev
2016-06-03 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qemu-img bench: Make start offset configurable Kevin Wolf
2016-06-06 10:02   ` Denis V. Lunev
2016-06-03 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qemu-img bench: Implement -S (step size) Kevin Wolf
2016-06-06 10:03   ` Denis V. Lunev
2016-06-03 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qemu-img bench: Add --flush-interval Kevin Wolf
2016-06-03 15:01   ` Denis V. Lunev
2016-06-03 15:16     ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2016-06-06 12:33       ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Kevin Wolf

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