openstack/ironic
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Move to unsafe caching

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Currently we use writeback caching for disks
on our test vms, however that honors syncs and
IO could become blocked/locked if the sync has
not completed with the double virtualization that
occurs in CI.

In theory, we don't need to worry about the
buffer cache behavior for our test VMs.

Overall, it appears that there is a performance
gain of about 10-15% with making this change because
we're not honoring syncs to not lock-up IO.

Change-Id: Ib09dd7fd41c6b1cbc0e2b707bfc9e4ff8dfa6fad
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Julia Kreger 2019-08-16 08:02:52 -04:00
parent 20ca7d7cbf
commit afa611c4e5
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devstack/tools/ironic/templates/vm.xml
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
<emulator>{{ emulator }}</emulator>
{% for (imagefile, letter) in images %}
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='{{ disk_format }}' cache='writeback'/>
<driver name='qemu' type='{{ disk_format }}' cache='unsafe'/>
<source file='{{ imagefile }}'/>
<!-- NOTE(lucasagomes): The virtio disk controller apparently does
not work with UEFI, so let's use IDE. -->