On 09/16/2016 11:22 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 16.09.2016 um 10:15 hat Denis V. Lunev geschrieben:
>> On 09/16/2016 11:08 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Am 15.09.2016 um 18:39 hat Denis V. Lunev geschrieben:
>>>> On 09/15/2016 07:09 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>>>> Am 15.09.2016 um 15:19 hat Denis V. Lunev geschrieben:
>>>>>> This mode could be very useful for flush bottlenecks evaluation and for
>>>>>> running non-persistent VMs, when host crash is considered not fatal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <d...@openvz.org>
>>>>>> CC: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
>>>>>> CC: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
>>>>> Why not just specify the individual options?
>>>>>
>>>>> -drive file=...,cache.direct=on,cache.no-flush=on
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin
>>>> then we need to have three options:
>>>> cache.direct=on/off
>>>> cache.flush=on/off (default on)
>>>> cache.writethrough=on/off
>>>> What will have preference, old style option, new style option, rightmost
>>>> option?
>>> The individual options take precedence, see the code that handles the
>>> "cache=..." option in drive_init():
>>>
>>> value = qemu_opt_get(all_opts, "cache");
>>> if (value) {
>>> int flags = 0;
>>> bool writethrough;
>>>
>>> if (bdrv_parse_cache_mode(value, &flags, &writethrough) != 0) {
>>> error_report("invalid cache option");
>>> return NULL;
>>> }
>>>
>>> /* Specific options take precedence */
>>> if (!qemu_opt_get(all_opts, BDRV_OPT_CACHE_WB)) {
>>> qemu_opt_set_bool(all_opts, BDRV_OPT_CACHE_WB,
>>> !writethrough, &error_abort);
>>> }
>>> if (!qemu_opt_get(all_opts, BDRV_OPT_CACHE_DIRECT)) {
>>> qemu_opt_set_bool(all_opts, BDRV_OPT_CACHE_DIRECT,
>>> !!(flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE), &error_abort);
>>> }
>>> if (!qemu_opt_get(all_opts, BDRV_OPT_CACHE_NO_FLUSH)) {
>>> qemu_opt_set_bool(all_opts, BDRV_OPT_CACHE_NO_FLUSH,
>>> !!(flags & BDRV_O_NO_FLUSH), &error_abort);
>>> }
>>> qemu_opt_unset(all_opts, "cache");
>>> }
>>>
>>> Kevin
>> thank for an idea!
> Just to be clear, everything that I mentioned is working today, so it's
> not just an idea that still needs to implemented.
>
> You just need to check the actual names of the options. Instead of your
> proposed writethrough/flush options, we have the reversed options
> writeback/no-flush.
>
> Kevin
oops, I have missed that. Thank you very much
Den
