From: Stefano Stabellini Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:34:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: libxl/qemu-xen: use cache=writeback for IDE and SCSI X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/4.8.0-1+rpi1~1^2~7815 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9a327bbbcab127625b0917a2780cb3601a81d01;p=xen.git libxl/qemu-xen: use cache=writeback for IDE and SCSI Change caching mode from writethrough to writeback for upstream QEMU. After a lengthy discussion, we came up with the conclusion that WRITEBACK is OK for IDE. See: http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=133311527009773 Given that the same reasons apply to SCSI as well, change to writeback for SCSI too. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini Acked-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Campbell Committed-by: Ian Campbell --- diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c index 4064d5d716..62c995432a 100644 --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c @@ -549,10 +549,10 @@ static char ** libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc, if (disks[i].is_cdrom) { if (disks[i].format == LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_EMPTY) drive = libxl__sprintf - (gc, "if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom", disk); + (gc, "if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom,cache=writeback", disk); else drive = libxl__sprintf - (gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom,format=%s", + (gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom,format=%s,cache=writeback", disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format); } else { if (disks[i].format == LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_EMPTY) { @@ -575,11 +575,11 @@ static char ** libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc, */ if (strncmp(disks[i].vdev, "sd", 2) == 0) drive = libxl__sprintf - (gc, "file=%s,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=%d,format=%s", + (gc, "file=%s,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=%d,format=%s,cache=writeback", disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format); else if (disk < 4) drive = libxl__sprintf - (gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=disk,format=%s", + (gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=disk,format=%s,cache=writeback", disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format); else continue; /* Do not emulate this disk */