On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/dev/shm/test.qcow2,cache=writeback,if=virtio > > Wouldn't this still be using threaded AIO mode? I thought KVM tools used native AIO? We don't use AIO at all. It's just normal read()/write() with a thread pool. I actually looked at AIO but didn't really see why we'd want to use it. -- 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