On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Ke-fei Lin wrote:
> 2014-06-14 0:11 GMT+08:00 Sage Weil <s...@inktank.com>:
> > Right now, no.
> >
> > We could add a minimum read size to librbd when caching is enabled...
> > that would not be particularly difficult.
> >
> > sage
> 
> Thanks, so is it possible to set some options like *readahead* in librbd
> or QEMU? Seems no docs mentioned this...

We've stayed away from readahead because this is normally done by the fs 
sitting on top of RBD.

> By the way I found a discussion (1 year ago) about persistent caching
> on QEMU's mailing list:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-06/msg03649.html
> Is there any work currently in progress?

Nope!  There was a blueprint on the subject a few CDS's ago, though:

        http://wiki.ceph.com/Planning/Sideboard/rbd%3A_shared_read_cache
        http://pad.ceph.com/p/rbd-shared-read-cache
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVgBdUv_Lv4&t=70m11s

sage
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