Re: [Xen-devel] Xen blktap driver for Ceph RBD : Anybody wants to test ? :p

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi George,


> Yes; qemu knows how to be a Xen PV block back-end.

Very interesting. Is there documentation about this somewhere ?
I had a look some time ago and it was really not very clear.

Things like what Xen version support this. And with which features (
indirect descriptors, persistent grants, discard, flush, ...) and/or
which limitation.


> One of the reasons for stopping work on blktap3 (AIUI) was that it
> should in theory have performance characteristics similar to blktap3,

And did anyone check the theory currently ? :)


> and tends to get newer protocols like ceph "for free" (i.e.,
> implemented by someone else).

Yes I can definitely see the appeal.


Cheers,

    Sylvain
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [CEPH Users]     [Ceph Large]     [Information on CEPH]     [Linux BTRFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]
  Powered by Linux