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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: ching <lsching17@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] linux aio and cache mode
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:30:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5060524C.2070509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506044DE.9060701@gmail.com>

Am 24.09.2012 13:32, schrieb ching:
> Hi all,
> 
> My host is qemu-1.1.1 and x64 kernel 3.5.4. The guest is using aio="native"
> 
> I am trying to use unsafe cache mode to boost i/o performance.

aio=native requires the image to be opened with O_DIRECT, i.e.
cache=none or cache=directsync. If you specify a different cache option,
it will silently fall back to aio=threads.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 11:32 [Qemu-devel] linux aio and cache mode ching
2012-09-24 12:30 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2012-09-24 22:40   ` ching
2012-09-25 13:33     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-09-25 23:22       ` ching
2012-09-26  7:51         ` Kevin Wolf
2012-09-28  0:00           ` ching

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