On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Are there any potential pitfalls? >> > > It won't work well unless running on a block device (partition or LVM). It will actually work well on pre-allocated filesystem images, at least on XFS and NFS. The real pitfal is that cache=none is required for kernel support as it only supports O_DIRECT. >> Is there any reason one should not compile that feature by default? It's compiled by default if libaio and it's development headers are found. >> Does it do anything if not explicitly run with aio=native? No. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
