[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][STABLE 0.13] Revert "qcow2: Use bdrv_(p)write_sync for metadata writes"

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 24.08.2010 13:02, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>> QEMU 0.12.5 has qcow2 sync metadata writes in commit
>> 37060c28e522843fbf6f7e59af745dfcb05b132c.  Was the performance
>> regression spotted on 0.12.5 or 0.13?
>
> Both. You mean we should consider a 0.12.6 if we decide to revert? I
> think so far 0.12.5 was planned to be last 0.12.x release.

Yes, especially if distros will revert the patches manually without an
upstream release.  I can see arguments for either way though.

Stefan