On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:02:50PM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > These patches allow to open file using O_DIRECT and bypass the host I/O cache. > > [PATCH 1/2] Add "directio" parameter to "-drive" > > Using "directio=on" with "-drive" will open the disk image > file using "O_DIRECT".
I don't see the point in adding a config param for this. If it provides a useful performance improvement (or other benefit) we should enable it by default all the time. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
