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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add flush=off parameter to -drive


From: Avi Kivity
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add flush=off parameter to -drive
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:04:28 +0300
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On 05/11/2010 11:36 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 10.05.2010 23:51, schrieb Alexander Graf:
Usually the guest can tell the host to flush data to disk. In some cases we
don't want to flush though, but try to keep everything in cache.

So let's add a new parameter to -drive that allows us to set the flushing
behavior to "on" or "off", defaulting to enabling the guest to flush.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<address@hidden>
What about another cache=... value instead of adding more options? I'm
quite sure you'll only ever need this with writeback caching. So we
could have cache=none|writethrough|writeback|wb-noflush or something
like that.

I implemented this once and promptly forgot about it, as cache=volatile.

--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.




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