On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:07:57PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Hi Christoph, > I have written up thoughts on write cache enable, including a > workaround to change O_SYNC on a file without kernel changes: > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/WriteCacheEnable > > Guest ability to control write cache enable is useful and I'd like to > see it in QEMU soon. Any thoughts about what I've posted? Care to > submit your patches?
I have patches using Prerna's close and reopen method almost ready for posting. Still fighting a bit with the new virtio code to wire it up. Unlike your variant I actually added a generic change config request type, which allows to re-use it for other runtime controllable features later.