Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Disk integrity in QEMU

[Anthony Liguori]

Mark Wagner wrote:
> I do not believe that this means that the data is still sitting in the
> host cache.  I realize it may not yet be on a disk, but, at a minimum,
> I would expect that is has been sent to the storage controller.  Do you
> consider the hosts cache to be part of the storage subsystem ?

Yes.  And the storage subsystem is often complicated like this.  
Consider if you had a hardware iSCSI initiator.  The host just sees a 
SCSI disk and when the writes are issued as completed, that simply means 
the writes have gone to the iSCSI server.  The iSCSI server may have its 
own cache or some deep storage multi-level cached storage subsystem.

The fact that the virtualization layer has a cache is really not that 
unusual.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori