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Message-ID: <5003D93E.2000304@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:05:02 +0800
From: Asias He <asias@...hat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>,
Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/5] Add vhost-blk support
Hi Christoph,
On 07/14/2012 03:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Please send a version that does direct block I/O similar to xen-blkback
> for now.
Seems xen-blkback converts the guest IO request to host bio and submit
them directly. I was wondering whether this has a performance gain
compared to AIO implementation.
> If we get proper in-kernel aio support one day you can add
> back file backend support.
I talked with Dave and Zack on the in-kernel aio patch which James
pointed out:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=133312234313122
Dave will post a new version soon. I will wait for it.
--
Asias
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