Re: rbd cache + libvirt

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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Josh Durgin <jdurgin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 06/08/2015 11:19 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> looking at the latest version of QEMU,
> >>
> >>
> >> It's seem that it's was already this behaviour since the add of rbd_cache
> >> parsing in rbd.c by josh in 2012
> >>
> >>
> >> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blobdiff;f=block/rbd.c;h=eebc3344620058322bb53ba8376af4a82388d277;hp=1280d66d3ca73e552642d7a60743a0e2ce05f664;hb=b11f38fcdf837c6ba1d4287b1c685eb3ae5351a8;hpb=166acf546f476d3594a1c1746dc265f1984c5c85
> >>
> >>
> >> I'll do tests on my side tomorrow to be sure.
> >
> >
> > It seems like we should switch the order so ceph.conf is overridden by
> > qemu's cache settings. I don't remember a good reason to have it the
> > other way around.
> >
> > Josh
> >
> 
> Erm, doesn`t this code *already* represent the right priorities?
> Cache=none setting should set a BDRV_O_NOCACHE which is effectively
> disabling cache in a mentioned snippet.
> 

Yes, the override is applied (correctly) based upon your QEMU cache settings.  However, it then reads your configuration file and re-applies the "rbd_cache" setting based upon what is in the file (if it exists).  So in the case where a configuration file has "rbd cache = true", the override of "rbd cache = false" derived from your QEMU cache setting would get wiped out.  The long term solution would be to, as Josh noted, switch the order (so long as there wasn't a use-case for applying values in this order).  In the short-term, you can remove the "rbd cache" setting from your ceph.conf so that QEMU controls it (i.e. it cannot get overridden when reading the configuration file) or use a different ceph.conf for a drive which requires different cache settings from the default configuration's settings.

Jason
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