From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpnOw-0005DO-LQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:09:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpnOt-0005D8-9Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:09:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58638 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpnOt-0005D5-6U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:09:39 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:45653) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KpnOs-0006wy-Kv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:09:38 -0400 Message-ID: <48F4D227.1020105@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:08:55 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Disk integrity in QEMU References: <48EE38B9.2050106@codemonkey.ws> <48EF1D55.7060307@redhat.com> <48F0E83E.2000907@redhat.com> <48F10DFD.40505@codemonkey.ws> <20081012004401.GA9763@acer.localdomain> <48F1CF9E.9030500@redhat.com> <48F23AF1.2000104@codemonkey.ws> <48F24320.9010201@redhat.com> <48F25100.6040706@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <48F25100.6040706@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Chris Wright , Mark McLoughlin , Ryan Harper , kvm-devel , Laurent Vivier Izik Eidus wrote: > But when using O_DIRECT you actuality make the pages not swappable at > all... > or am i wrong? Only for the duration of the I/O operation, which is typically very short. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.