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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: disable write cache if not nego
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Paolo Bonzini |
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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 14:21:19 +0200 |
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Il 04/07/2012 12:16, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>> > 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.
If we want to fix this, let's take the occasion to split the parameters
into cache=on/off (well, we have that already), flush=on/off, and a
device-side wce=on/off.
> 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.
Thanks! Is that an Acked-by/Reviewed-by? :)
Paolo
Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH 0/2] virtio-blk: writeback cache enable improvements, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/07/23