Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends

[Samuel Thibault]

Anthony Liguori, le Thu 09 Apr 2009 08:11:27 -0500, a écrit :
> >- ide.c:ide_init2
> >  
> 
> This buffer is only used when not doing DMA.  When doing DMA, we are 
> able to do zero-copy IO so the alignment of the request depends on how 
> the guest aligned the request.  I suspect you'll find a lot of guests 
> that, in practice, do not align requests at 4k boundaries.

Eeeeerrr, why shoudn't they?  Guests usually work on pages, which are
already aligned on 4k boundaries.

> I don't know what the requirements are for IDE but I would be
> surprised if it was 4k.

I believe there is no requirement.

Samuel