Hi Alex, any chances you would also be sharing the compiled .deb of the ubuntu package? I'm willing to test, as we have issues with qemu-1.4.2 and bridging within a VM. Will try to build the .deb now. Wolfgang On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > I've backported the modern (qemu 1.5) rbd driver to qemu 1.0 (for anyone > interested). This is designed for people who are conservative in hypervisor > version, but like more bleeding edge storage. > > The main thing this adds is asynchronous flush to rbd, plus automatic > control of rbd caching behaviour. I have NOT backported the extended > configuration bits. > > I've used runtime testing through weak binding to detect the version > of librd in use, so it's possible to compile against a standard > Precise librbd, then run with a more modern one and take advantage > of async flush. It works the other way around too. Note the original > implementation of this posted to the qemu list (but not > taken) did not quite work. > > The backport in qemu repository format can be found at > https://github.com/flexiant/qemu/commits/v1.0-rbd-add-async-flush > (note the branch is v1.0-rbd-add-async-flush). > > I've also backported this to the Ubuntu Precise packaging of qemu-kvm, > (again note the branch is v1.0-rbd-add-async-flush) at > https://github.com/flexiant/qemu-kvm-1.0-noroms/tree/v1.0-rbd-add-async-flush > > THESE PATCHES ARE VERY LIGHTLY TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. > > -- > Alex Bligh > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com -- http://www.wogri.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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