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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC Patch 0/3]Qemu: Enable dynamic cache	change
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Supriya Kannery <supriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Why are you even trying this again?  
Enabling control of cache setting from qemu monitor will help 
users/admins to
accomplish cache value change without depending on the guest.
> As explained very clearly last time you
> can't change from a writeback-style to a write-through style I/O from
> the monitor without creating massive data integrity problems.  See my
> patchset that allows changing this from the guest for how it should be
> done - I just need to get back and revisit the virtio protocol support
> for it.
>
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>   
ok, sure, I will go through your related patches and work further on this.