Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: Add cache command line option

2011-06-20 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 16.06.2011 16:43, schrieb Kevin Wolf: > Am 16.06.2011 16:28, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:46:10AM -0400, Federico Simoncelli wrote: >>> qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling >>> up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel prev

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: Add cache command line option

2011-06-16 Thread Federico Simoncelli
- Original Message - > From: "Christoph Hellwig" > To: "Federico Simoncelli" > Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org, kw...@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, > a...@redhat.com > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:28:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: Add cache command line option

2011-06-16 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 16.06.2011 16:28, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:46:10AM -0400, Federico Simoncelli wrote: >> qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling >> up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel preventing >> other processes from accessing the s

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: Add cache command line option

2011-06-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:46:10AM -0400, Federico Simoncelli wrote: > qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling > up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel preventing > other processes from accessing the storage. > This is particularly bad in cluster environ