FWIW, this got proposed for Newton with [1], but it is unlikely that it will be approved for this release as the backlog of work items in Nova is too big at the moment. Maybe a release later. I'm closing this bug report as the effort will be driven by the blueprint.
References: [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/230968/ ** Changed in: nova Status: Confirmed => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1399573 Title: allows to configure disk driver IO policy Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Opinion Bug description: libvirt allows to configure the disk IO policy with io=native or io=threads which according this email clearly improves performance: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-June/msg00004.html We should give the possibility to configure this as we do for disk_cachemode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1399573/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

