Re: Some more basic questions..

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>A few additional questions:)
>
>1. If IO to a block device goes through QEMU and not vhost, are there
>data copies between kernel and user mode if I do IO to a block device
>or is it zero copy? Kind of related to Question (2) also.
>
I'm not sure, it perhaps depend on which IO mode you chose, qemu pthreads IO, or linux AIO?
Somebody else do a favour, please.

>2. A related question to (1), is the QEMU process separate from the VM
>process or do they all run on the same process as different threads? I
>did read about IO threads and it seemed like they are all part of the
>same process, wanted to confirm.
>
Yes, vcpu threads and qemu backend IO threads belong to the same process(qemu).

>Thank you:)

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