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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: disable write cache if not nego
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: disable write cache if not negotiated |
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Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:16:19 +0200 |
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Am 03.07.2012 15:51, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 03/07/2012 15:49, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>>> If the guest does not support flushes, we should run in writethrough mode.
>>>> The setting is temporary until the next reset, so that for example the
>>>> BIOS will run in writethrough mode while Linux will run with a writeback
>>>> cache.
>>>>
>>>> VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH has been introduced in Linux 2.6.32 (in 2009) and
>>>> was backported to RHEL/CentOS 5.6 (in 2010). The Windows drivers have
>>>> two bugs, which I reported on the Red Hat Bugzilla as bugs 837321 and
>>>> 837324. With these patches they will suffer a performance hit but
>>>> gain correctness.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> I generally like the idea for a default, but doesn't this override even
>> an explicit cache=writeback?
>
> Yes. It doesn't override cache=unsafe though.
When the guest doesn't support flushes, cache=writeback is equivalent to
cache=unsafe, so if you want the old behaviour back you can switch to
cache=unsafe without additional risks.
We don't have a cache=directunsafe, though, so if you want to get the
old behaviour of cache=none back, you're out of luck. Not sure how
acceptable this is.
Irrespective of this concern I've come to the conclusion that I agree
and we actually must enforce this for non-unsafe mode, and not doing it
is a bug.
Kevin
Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH 0/2] virtio-blk: writeback cache enable improvements, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/23