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Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends
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Stefano Stabellini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:11:58 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) |
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 04/09/09 17:21, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Gerd Hoffmann, le Thu 09 Apr 2009 15:54:34 +0200, a écrit :
>>> On 04/09/09 15:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>>> The userspace\kernelspace distinction does not make much sense in
>>>> minios, but yes it provides an interface to communicate with blkback in
>>>> dom0. This interface is used by block-vbd in qemu instead of
>>>> block-raw-posix when run in minios.
>>> Sit back, look again. Do you really need it being page-aligned?
>> Page aligned is an optimization which comes for free when you can
>> already choose the alignment.
>
> Ok, so you don't have to.
>
> Does it have an effect positive actually? i.e. do you have requests
> which would fit into one page but actually span two due to the misalignment?
Yep, I can see many here.
- [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/04/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Anthony Liguori, 2009/04/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Anthony Liguori, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Samuel Thibault, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends,
Stefano Stabellini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Samuel Thibault, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Anthony Liguori, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Jamie Lokier, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Samuel Thibault, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Lennart Sorensen, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Samuel Thibault, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Paul Brook, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Samuel Thibault, 2009/04/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] buffer alignment for block backends, Anthony Liguori, 2009/04/09