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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] block: introduce BDRV_O_SEQUENTIAL
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
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On 21.03.2014 13:06, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 21/03/2014 12:49, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
>> A 10G logical volume was created and filled with random data.
>> Then the logical volume was exported via qemu-img convert to an iscsi target.
>> Before the export was started all caches of the linux kernel where dropped.
>>
>> Old behavior:
>>  - The convert process took 3m45s and the buffer cache grew up to 9.67 GB close
>>    to the end of the conversion. After qemu-img terminated all the buffers were
>>    freed by the kernel.
>>
>> New behavior with the -N switch:
>>  - The convert process took 3m43s and the buffer cache grew up to 15.48 MB close
>>    to the end with some small peaks up to 30 MB durine the conversion.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
>> ---
>> v1->v2: - added test example to commit msg
>>         - added -N knob to qemu-img
>
> I'm sorry, I cannot find the original discussion.  Why is the new knob needed?

Hi all,

how shall we proceed with this patch? Is additional info needed?

Peter