From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkBw-0002nP-AF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkBv-0004tq-Ff for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkBv-0004tl-7Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC91418.6010102@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:31:52 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1304955940-18965-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1304955940-18965-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] qed: Periodically flush and clear need check bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Am 09.05.2011 17:45, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > This patch marks QED images as clean periodically when it is safe to do so. > This reduces the chance of having to perform a consistency check at startup. > Previously we left the image dirty even when it was consistent, therefore > risking an unnecessary consistency check after crash. > > The first patch stubs out qemu-timer.c functions for qemu-tool.c, which is > needed since block drivers get built into qemu-img and friends. In the long > run having timers in qemu-tool too would be good, but for now they are not > critical and the stub implementation works. Thanks, applied both to the block branch. Kevin