Bug 571171
| Summary: | Change the block IO host implementation to aio | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Dor Laor <dlaor> |
| Component: | qemu-kvm | Assignee: | Kevin Wolf <kwolf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | aliguori, amit.shah, ddutile, dshaks, ehabkost, gcosta, juzhang, khong, knoel, pbonzini, perfbz, syeghiay, tburke, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | beta | ||
| Target Release: | 7.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-03-15 12:05:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 589985, 615309, 689830 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 580954 | ||
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Description
Dor Laor
2010-03-07 11:41:56 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. Note that Linux aio support gets automatically built if we find libaio and it's headers. So what needs to be done here it pull libaio-devel in as a build requirement. Also note that we'll need a clone of this bug for libvirt to enable aio=native on the qemu command line, (In reply to comment #2) > Note that Linux aio support gets automatically built if we find libaio and it's > headers. So what needs to be done here it pull libaio-devel in as a build > requirement. That's a rpm dependency change > > Also note that we'll need a clone of this bug for libvirt to enable aio=native > on the qemu command line, Isn't the above sufficient? Alternatively we can change the default ourselves in qemu. Given that this recently came up on irc, what's the status? Do we still want to change the default aio backend, and if yes do that in libvirt or by patching qemu? (In reply to comment #4) > Given that this recently came up on irc, what's the status? Do we still want > to change the default aio backend, and if yes do that in libvirt or by patching > qemu? I think we rather change the default in qemu, there are far too many folks try qemu directly. It's the same like cache=off in the past. If we're doing this as a RHEL only patch it's easy given that both raw block device (disk/lvm) and nfs support proper AIO. If we want to do this upstream we also need to special case regular files on various local filesystems, especially if they are thinly provisioned. Dor, is this okay as a RHEL-only patch? If you can change upstream default for our use cases it will be even better. If not, rhel-only will do too. Adding Anthony to the BZ Reassigning to RHEL7, as we're unlikely to get the upstream fix in in time. A non-issue for RHEL, since we always go through libvirt. If the default has to change, the change has to be in libvirt. |