Re: KVM for the enterprise

2011-11-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:25:38AM -0500, Michael Waite wrote: Hi, The Open Virtualization Alliance is going to be having a webinar on December 8th which is intended to help promote KVM as an enterprise class hypervisor. I see so much great engineering work going on to make KVM a really

RE: [RFC v2 PATCH] kvm tools, qcow: Add the support for copy-on-write clusters

2011-11-19 Thread Lan, Tianyu
How about using the sync_file_range to sync the metadata? -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Lan, Tianyu Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:09 AM To: Kevin Wolf Cc: penb...@kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org;

RE: [RFC v2 PATCH] kvm tools, qcow: Add the support for copy-on-write clusters

2011-11-19 Thread Sasha Levin
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 23:30 +0800, Lan, Tianyu wrote: How about using the sync_file_range to sync the metadata? sync_file_range() is only a hint, it doesn't actually assure anything. -- Sasha. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to

RE: [RFC v2 PATCH] kvm tools, qcow: Add the support for copy-on-write clusters

2011-11-19 Thread Lan, Tianyu
OK. Thx. But fsync is too slow. I try to find a way to sync a range of file. Are there any solutions to meet my purpose? Thanks Tianyu Lan -Original Message- From: Sasha Levin [mailto:levinsasha...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:27 AM To: Lan, Tianyu Cc: Kevin Wolf;

RE: [RFC v2 PATCH] kvm tools, qcow: Add the support for copy-on-write clusters

2011-11-19 Thread Sasha Levin
On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 14:14 +0800, Lan, Tianyu wrote: OK. Thx. But fsync is too slow. I try to find a way to sync a range of file. Are there any solutions to meet my purpose? fdatasync() is as good as it'll get. tbh, maybe we should just consider opening QCOW images with O_SYNC and just get

RE: [RFC v2 PATCH] kvm tools, qcow: Add the support for copy-on-write clusters

2011-11-19 Thread Lan, Tianyu
Yeah. That will make the work quite simple. After testing, fdatasync is better than fsync. -Original Message- From: Sasha Levin [mailto:levinsasha...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:23 PM To: Lan, Tianyu Cc: Kevin Wolf; penb...@kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org;