[Qemu-block] [PATCH] docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter

2018-02-19 Thread Alberto Garcia
This patch updates docs/qcow2-cache.txt explaining how to use the new l2-cache-entry-size parameter. Here's a more detailed technical description of this feature: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-09/msg00635.html And here are some performance numbers: https://lists.gnu.o

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter

2018-02-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/19/2018 08:54 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: This patch updates docs/qcow2-cache.txt explaining how to use the new l2-cache-entry-size parameter. Here's a more detailed technical description of this feature: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-09/msg00635.html And here are

Re: [Qemu-block] Multiqueue block layer

2018-02-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 18/02/2018 19:20, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Paolo's patches have been getting us closer to multiqueue block layer > support but there is a final set of changes required that has become > clearer to me just recently. I'm curious if this matches Paolo's > vision and whether anyone else has comment

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter

2018-02-19 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon 19 Feb 2018 05:44:23 PM CET, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/19/2018 08:54 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: >> This patch updates docs/qcow2-cache.txt explaining how to use the new >> l2-cache-entry-size parameter. >> >> Here's a more detailed technical description of this feature: >> >> https://l

Re: [Qemu-block] Multiqueue block layer

2018-02-19 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 18/02/2018 19:20, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> Paolo's patches have been getting us closer to multiqueue block layer >> support but there is a final set of changes required that has become >> clearer to me just recently. I'm curious if this

Re: [Qemu-block] Multiqueue block layer

2018-02-19 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
By the way, one thing that makes me nervous is that we lack an explicit "request queue" or "per-queue" concept. State can either be per-BlockDriverState (shared state) or per-request, but not per-queue. So far there hasn't been a need for per-queue state but there may be opportunities to eliminat

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] Multiqueue block layer

2018-02-19 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
>>Heh. I have stopped pushing my patches (and scratched a few itches with >>patchew instead) because I'm still a bit burned out from recent KVM >>stuff, but this may be the injection of enthusiasm that I needed. :) Thanks Paolo for your great work on multiqueue, that's a lot of work since the l

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter

2018-02-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/19/2018 12:26 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: + - The L2 cache entry size has the same restrictions as the cluster + size (power of two, at least 512 bytes). Worth mentioning the upper limit of the cluster size? I thought it would be unnecessary since the that's already mentioned several t

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] iotests: add file_path helper

2018-02-19 Thread Jeff Cody
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:46:35PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/15/2018 07:51 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > >Simple way to have auto generated filenames with auto clenup. Like > > s/clenup/cleanup/ > > >FilePath but without using 'with' statement and without additional > >indentat