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Bug 591703 (LibvirtAIO) - RFE: libvirt XML should allow to specify AIO mode
Summary: RFE: libvirt XML should allow to specify AIO mode
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: LibvirtAIO
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 6.1
Assignee: Eric Blake
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 592070
Blocks: 611206 Rhel6.1LibvirtTier2 644849
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-12 20:52 UTC by Jes Sorensen
Modified: 2013-01-11 02:59 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.8.7-5.el6
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:18:49 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0596 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE libvirt bug fix and enhancement update 2011-05-18 17:56:36 UTC

Description Jes Sorensen 2010-05-12 20:52:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
Customers are asking for a feature to allow specifying the AIO mode via libvirt XML, like can be done on the QEMU command line with aio=native etc.

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Comment 1 Eric Blake 2010-05-12 20:57:47 UTC 
A preliminary patch was proposed upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-April/msg00786.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-April/msg00888.html

but missed inclusion into libvirt 0.8.1.
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-12 22:05:46 UTC 
This feature request did not get resolved in time for Feature Freeze
for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and has now been
denied. You may re-open your request by requesting your support
representative to propose it for the next release.
Comment 6 Eric Blake 2010-05-17 22:13:33 UTC 
Upstream discussion[1] on the initial patch pointed out that a better solution than adding a qemu-specific <disk type="..." aio="threads"/> might be to instead support:

<disk type="...">
  <iobackend type="aiothreads"/>
</disk>

to allow further iobackend types among other hypervisors.  Until the XML representation is nailed down, this is not yet ready for inclusion.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-May/msg00538.html
Comment 7 Eric Blake 2011-01-05 20:18:21 UTC 
Upstream is still hashing out the best XML representation:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-January/msg00066.html

but it should be easy to modify the existing patch mentioned in comment 6 to match whatever naming conventions is ultimately agreed on, in time for RHEL 6.1.
Comment 8 Eric Blake 2011-01-14 23:01:23 UTC 
Upstream patch posted, based on fallout from discussion.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-January/msg00694.html
Comment 13 Eric Blake 2011-01-28 18:39:54 UTC 
Posted for inclusion in RHEL 6.1:
http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2011-January/msg01500.html
Comment 15 Nan Zhang 2011-02-15 03:26:40 UTC 
Verified with the following packages, it's already been fixed.
libvirt-0.8.7-6.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.144.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-115.el6.x86_64

# virsh dumpxml demo
...
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/demo.img'/>
      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
...

# ps -ef | grep qemu-kvm | grep aio
root      6778     1  8 04:57 ?        01:26:27 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name demo -uuid 4e70a311-e9f2-f5e8-e651-37d4a94c5f3e -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/demo.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -boot d -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/demo.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native
...
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:18:49 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0596.html
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