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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Default cache mode |
Date: | Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:23:31 -0500 |
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On 06/29/2011 07:16 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 29.06.2011 14:06, schrieb Anthony Liguori:On 06/29/2011 06:59 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:Hi, I think we have touched this topic before during some IRC discussions or somewhere deep in a mailing list thread, but I think it hasn't been discussed on the list. Our default cache mode of cache=writethrough is extremely conservative and provides absolute safety at the cost of performance,But for the most part, we track bare metal fairly well in terms of block performance, no? Or are you really referring to qcow2 as a specific example? In the past, we used a different default caching mode for qcow2. I think that could be done again if there was a compelling reason.No, people are also complaining about bad performance with raw. Which isn't really surprising when you do a flush after each single write request. O_SYNC is really much more than is needed in the average case.
Which file system on the host?At any rate, I'm a big fan of making wce tunable in the guest and then I think setting wce=1 is quite reasonable to do by default.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
Kevin
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