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2020 Feb 10
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Re: [RFC] lib: allow to specify physical/logical block size for disks
...block size? I'm fairly sure we only need one of these. I'm just not sure which one we need. I think we need to ask an expert or look at the qemu / kernel code to find out exactly what each setting really does. > - I'm not sure I've made a good choise for parameter names: 'pblocksize' > and 'lblocksize' respectively. I've tried to avoid long names like > 'physicalblocksize' while keeping readability and semantic. If we only have one, we can use "blocksize". But it does require us to answer the previous one. > - Do we want to add th...
2020 Feb 07
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[RFC] lib: allow to specify physical/logical block size for disks
...for a drive separetely. There are no documentation and tests yet. Input parameters are not validated for correctness. Here are my questions: - Am I move in the right direction adding support for physical/logical block size? - I'm not sure I've made a good choise for parameter names: 'pblocksize' and 'lblocksize' respectively. I've tried to avoid long names like 'physicalblocksize' while keeping readability and semantic. - Do we want to add the same optional parameters to 'add_drive_scratch' API method? I think it would be nice but it is up to you. - What...
2020 Feb 10
2
Re: [RFC] lib: allow to specify physical/logical block size for disks
...make I/O request equals to (or multiple) this value. Otherwise you might hit performance penalty. I think, the same is valid for virtual disk image which is located on physical storage with 4K physical sector size. > > - I'm not sure I've made a good choise for parameter names: 'pblocksize' > > and 'lblocksize' respectively. I've tried to avoid long names like > > 'physicalblocksize' while keeping readability and semantic. > > If we only have one, we can use "blocksize". But it does > require us to answer the previous one. Her...