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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:27:04 +0300
From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/30] ext4: do not send discards as barriers
On 08/31/2010 01:13 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 08/31/2010 12:07 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> I don't know all the specifics of the virtio driver and the KVM backend but
>> don't the KVM target io is eventually directed to a local file or device?
>> If so the scsi device has disappeard but the bulk of the data is in host cache
>> at the backstore (file or bdev). Once all files are closed the data is synced
>> to disk.
>>
>> Is it not the same as Ric's problem of disconnecting the sata cable but
>> not dropping power to the drive. The main of the cache is still intact.
>
> There are two layers of caching there.
>
> drive cache - host page cache - guest
>
> When guest issues FLUSH, qemu will translate it into fdatasync which
> will flush the host page cache followed by FLUSH to the drive which
> will flush the drive cache to the media. If you delete the host disk
> device, it will be detached w/o host page cache flushed. So, although
> it's not complete, it will lose good part of cache. With out write
> out timeout increased and/or with laptop mode enabled, it will
> probably lose most of cache.
>
Ha, ok you meant that device. So if you have a dedicated physical device
for backstore that would be a very nice scriptable way.
Thanks, that's a much better automated test than pulling drives out of
sockets.
> Thanks.
>
Boaz
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