From: Matthias Dahl <mdvirt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> qemu allows the user to choose what io storage api should be used, either the default (threads) or native (linux aio) which in the latter case can result in better performance. Thanks a lot to Eric Blake and Matthias Bolte for their comments. Red Hat Bugzilla #591703 Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is so simple, maybe it's worth squashing into 3/4? src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c index 9f84988..87998c1 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c @@ -2526,6 +2526,11 @@ qemuBuildDriveStr(virDomainDiskDefPtr disk, } } + if (disk->aiomode && (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_AIO)) { + virBufferVSprintf(&opt, ",aio=%s", + qemuDiskAIOTypeToString(disk->aiomode)); + } + if (virBufferError(&opt)) { virReportOOMError(); goto error; -- 1.7.0.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list