Re: [PATCH +stable] block: don't attempt to merge overlapping requests

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On 05/19/2010 12:01 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
On 05/18/2010 10:22 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
What cache= mode are you running?
writeback.
In the cache=writeback case the virtio-blk guest driver does:

blk_queue_ordered(q, QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH, ...)

I don't follow.  What's the implication?

btw I really dislike how the cache attribute (which I see as a pure host choice) is exposed to the guest. It means we can't change caching mode on the fly (for example after live migration), or that changing caching mode during a restart may expose a previously hidden guest bug.

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