Re: [Virtio-fs] [PATCH] virtiofsd: Use --thread-pool-size=0 to mean no thread pool

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 12:34 PM Christian Schoenebeck
<qemu_oss@crudebyte.com> wrote:
>
> On Donnerstag, 12. November 2020 10:06:37 CET Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >
> > 9p:cache=none  <-> virtiofs:cache=none
> > 9p:cache=loose <-> virtiofs:cache=always
> >
> > "9p:cache=mmap" and "virtiofs:cache=auto" have no match.
>
> What does 'auto' do exactly?

It has a configurable timeout (default is 1s) for the attribute and
lookup cache and close-to-open consistency for data (flush on close,
invalidate on open).  This is similar to, but less refined as NFS.
It's something that could easily be improved if there's a need for it.

Thanks,
Miklos