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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format |
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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:15:56 +0100 |
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Am 22.02.2011 16:57, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 02/22/2011 02:56 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>
>> *sigh*
>>
>> It starts to get annoying, but if you really insist, I can repeat it
>> once more: These features that you don't need (this is the correct
>> description for what you call "misfeatures") _are_ implemented in a way
>> that they don't impact the "normal" case.
>
> Except that they require a refcount table that adds additional metadata
> that needs to be updated in the fast path. I consider that impacting
> the normal case.
Like it or not, this requirement exists anyway, without any of your
"misfeatures".
You chose to use the dirty flag in QED in order to avoid having to flush
metadata too often, which is an approach that any other format, even one
using refcounts, can take as well.
Kevin
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED, Chunqiang Tang, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED, Kevin Wolf, 2011/02/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED, Chunqiang Tang, 2011/02/17
- Strategic decision: COW format (was: [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED), Markus Armbruster, 2011/02/18
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Kevin Wolf, 2011/02/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Markus Armbruster, 2011/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Kevin Wolf, 2011/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Markus Armbruster, 2011/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format,
Kevin Wolf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Kevin Wolf, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Kevin Wolf, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Kevin Wolf, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/23