From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Flush pending AIO on reboot and shutdown.
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:40:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A32AA2.6030902@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080813183544.GA29998@minantech.com>
Gleb Natapov wrote:
> but what bother me is that we
> consciously drop user data that we can easily save. Why? Real HW tries
> hard to save every bit of user data and we just decided to drop it. The
> difference between cancel or complete a request may be corrupted or not
> corrupted file system after a crash.
>
>
If a guest didn't wait for an I/O to complete, it shouldn't expect it to
be on disk.
Of course, we can have the IDE layer wait instead of cancelling, which
will get the request onto the disk.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-13 13:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Flush pending AIO on reboot and shutdown Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 13:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-08-13 13:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 14:06 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-08-13 14:25 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 14:29 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-08-13 14:40 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-13 14:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 16:14 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-08-13 13:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-13 14:13 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 15:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-13 15:18 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-13 15:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-13 16:36 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-13 15:23 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 15:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-13 18:35 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 18:40 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-08-13 18:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-13 19:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-14 10:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-13 19:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-13 22:32 ` Samuel Thibault
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