Re: io mode=native precisions

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/24/2014 03:57 AM, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Raphael Bauduin <rblists@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:rblists@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Before switching to io mode=native, I wanted to check if there are any
>     disadvantages or potential problem with this setting.
>     I virtio-blk data plane required to use this setting effectively? (as
>     illustrated
>     here:http://blog.vmsplice.net/2013/03/new-in-qemu-14-high-performance-virtio.html)
>     Is there a requirement on the host kernel (eg minimum version)?
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> Is this a stupid question or does no one use native io mode? Please let me know
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dataplane is not required for io=native. io=native is used quite often in
practice, just when the VM is using a host block device as storage. That's
when virt-manager sets io=native at least, as recommended to use by the qemu devs.


ok, thanks for your feedback!

Raph
 
- Cole




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