On 28/05/15 15:01, Stanislav German-Evtushenko wrote:
Note that without O_DIRECT you won't get a "correct" result either; disk
may end not containing the data in the buffer when write was called.
Softmirror data will be identically uncertain :)
You are right. That is why I suppose there is a bug (operations with
buffer are not ensured to be thread-safe) in QEMU-KVM.
What does it mean that operations with buffer are not ensured to be
thread-safe in qemu?
O_DIRECT doesn't guarantee that buffer reading is finished when write
returns if I read "man -s 2 open" correctly. So this means the only
cache modes in QEMU that are "predictable" to use are writethrough and
writeback. All others use O_DIRECT (excluding "unsafe" for obvious reasons).
I have a feeling that this is what you are trying to tell from the
beginning? :)
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