> Does this mean that virtio-blk supports all three combinations? > > 1. FLUSH that isn't a barrier > 2. FLUSH that is also a barrier > 3. Barrier that is not a flush > > 1 is good for fsync-like operations; > 2 is good for journalling-like ordered operations. > 3 sounds like it doesn't mean a lot as the host cache provides no > guarantees and has no ordering facility that can be used.
(3) allows the guest to queue overlapping transfers with well defined results. I have no idea how useful this is in practice, but it's certainly plausible. Paul _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
