Expand cache= option and use write-through caching by default
authoraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:42:54 +0000 (14:42 +0000)
committeraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:42:54 +0000 (14:42 +0000)
commit9f7965c7e965c8b80da27048017a360b3c57c4af
tree9a7b218b7a7b590fe926f1c282dfa0916f19092c
parenteeb438c1b84468e8faa7e69bec86b78b45f2347f
Expand cache= option and use write-through caching by default

This patch changes the cache= option to accept none, writeback, or writethough
to control the host page cache behavior.  By default, writethrough caching is
now used which internally is implemented by using O_DSYNC to open the disk
images.  When using -snapshot, writeback is used by default since data integrity
it not at all an issue.

cache=none has the same behavior as cache=off previously.  The later syntax is
still supported by now deprecated.  I also cleaned up the O_DIRECT
implementation to avoid many of the #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5485 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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