On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> That's probably why it's fast, it doesn't preserve data integrity :( > > Actually, I misread the code. It does unstable writes but it does do > fsync() on FLUSH. Yes. That's fine, right? Or did we misread how virtio block devices are supposed to work? Btw, unstable writes doesn't really explain why *read* performance is better. Pekka -- 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