From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] block: add bdrv_aio_flush operation
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:24:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9CF642.5070904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831201730.GC4874@lst.de>
On 08/31/2009 11:17 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead stalling the VCPU while serving a cache flush try to do it
> asynchronously. Use our good old helper thread pool to issue an
> asynchronous fdatasync for raw-posix. Note that while Linux AIO
> implements a fdatasync operation it is not useful for us because
> it isn't actually implement in asynchronous fashion.
>
>
Doesn't aio_flush() need to wait for all previously issued requests to
complete?
We can require callers to do that, but it seems quite a burden.
> For now only use it in IDE because virtio-blk doesn't implement
> cache flusing yet (will be fixed in patch 4/4) and the interface between
> the HBA emulation and scsi-disk will need some changes to accomodate
> it for scsi (will be a separate patch series).
>
IDE integration should be in a separate patch.
Patch has some tabs.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-31 20:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] data integrity fixes Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 20:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: add enable_write_cache flag Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 22:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 22:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 22:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 23:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-01 10:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 22:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 22:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 22:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 22:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 23:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 23:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 3:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 13:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-02 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 19:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 20:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] block: use fdatasync instead of fsync Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 21:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 21:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-31 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-01 15:59 ` Blue Swirl
2009-09-01 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 0:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-02 0:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 1:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-02 14:02 ` Blue Swirl
2009-09-02 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 20:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] block: add bdrv_aio_flush operation Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-01 10:24 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-09-01 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 20:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] virtio-blk: add volatile writecache feature Christoph Hellwig
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