From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MeWBS-0007DN-8X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:37:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MeWBN-00079m-9Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:37:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53755 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MeWBN-00079b-5H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:37:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39004) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MeWBM-00036L-Lt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4A8EBF59.8060600@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:38:01 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] native Linux AIO support revisited References: <20090820145803.GA23578@lst.de> <4A8E4F87.6070405@redhat.com> <20090821145048.GB22645@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20090821145048.GB22645@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/21/2009 05:50 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> I like both the numbers and the patches. But why disable by default? >> Enabling for cache=none host devices only seems a safe choice. >> > I want to > > a) get some more testing. Especially from people who are better at > testing than me and have a wider variety of hardware > They're called "users" (at least, development snapshot users). Enabling by default will see wider testing. > b) sort out the queue depth issue. Which I'd really prefer to once > the basic patch is in I don't have to work with a large patch > stack. > Ok. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.