Hello, I want to enable the qemu rbd writeback cache, the following is the settings in /etc/ceph/ceph.conf [client] rbd_cache = true rbd_cache_writethrough_until_flush = false rbd_cache_size = 27180800 rbd_cache_max_dirty = 20918080 rbd_cache_target_dirty = 16808000 rbd_cache_max_dirty_age = 60 and the next section is the vm definition xml: <disk type='network' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' cache='writeback'/> <auth username='estack'> <secret type='ceph' uuid='101ae7dc-bd59-485e-acba-efc8ddbe0d01'/> </auth> <source protocol='rbd' name='estack/new-libvirt-image'> <host name='X.X.X.X' port='6789'/> </source> <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </disk> my host OS is Ubuntu, kernel 3.11.0-12-generic, the kvm-qemu is 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5.4, the guest os is Ubuntu 13.11 ceph version is 0.80.1 (a38fe1169b6d2ac98b427334c12d7cf81f809b74) no performance improvements using the above cache settings, So what's wrong with me, please help, thanks! Jian Li -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140708/7f3d5f23/attachment.htm>