Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Lalancette
On 01/03/11 - 04:43:06PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/17/2010 03:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding Matthias on cc] Reviving an old thread, as it is something I plan on working in the near future. On 05/17/2010 03:07 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote: On 05/12/2010 11:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2011-01-04 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:12:21AM -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote: On 01/03/11 - 04:43:06PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/17/2010 03:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding Matthias on cc] Reviving an old thread, as it is something I plan on working in the near future. On 05/17/2010

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2011-01-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/04/2011 09:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Does this deserve a new iobackend element, or should it merely be a new optional attribute of the existing driver element, as in: driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' iobackend='aiothreads'/ I slightly prefer making it a new attribute

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2011-01-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/17/2010 03:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding Matthias on cc] Reviving an old thread, as it is something I plan on working in the near future. On 05/17/2010 03:07 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote: On 05/12/2010 11:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: From: Matthias Dahl mdv...@designassembly.de qemu

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Lalancette
On 05/12/2010 11:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: From: Matthias Dahl mdv...@designassembly.de qemu allows the user to choose what io storage api should be used, either the default (threads) or native (linux aio) which in the latter case can result in better performance. Thanks a lot to Eric

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2010-05-17 Thread Eric Blake
[adding Matthias on cc] On 05/17/2010 03:07 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote: On 05/12/2010 11:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: From: Matthias Dahl mdv...@designassembly.de qemu allows the user to choose what io storage api should be used, either the default (threads) or native (linux aio) which in the

[libvirt] [PATCH] Support for qemu aio drive option

2010-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
From: Matthias Dahl mdv...@designassembly.de qemu allows the user to choose what io storage api should be used, either the default (threads) or native (linux aio) which in the latter case can result in better performance. Thanks a lot to Eric Blake and Matthias Bolte for their comments. Red Hat