Re: [Qemu-devel] Caching modes

2010-09-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: It would be nice to have additional mode, like cache=always, where even flushes MAY be ignored. This would max out the performance. That's cache=unsafe and we have it. I ignored it for the purposes of this discussion. Guest disk cache. For al

Re: [Qemu-devel] Caching modes

2010-09-20 Thread Blue Swirl
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Moving to a separate thread since this has come up a few times and I think > we need to discuss the assumptions a bit more. > > This is how I understand the caching modes should behave and what guarantees > a guest gets. > > cache=none > >

[Qemu-devel] Caching modes

2010-09-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Moving to a separate thread since this has come up a few times and I think we need to discuss the assumptions a bit more. This is how I understand the caching modes should behave and what guarantees a guest gets. cache=none All read and write requests SHOULD avoid any type of caching in the