From: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH pve-qemu qemu-server 0/3] bypass host page cache for restore on zvol
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:50:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818075050.86065-1-c.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
This patch series skips writing to the host page cache for restores
to zvols, with the intention to avoid potential I/O delay issues for
other ZFS-backed VMs during page writeback on certain setups, as
reported in enterprise support and reproduced internally.
This patch series adds an optional no-cache parameter for pbs-restore
command invocation, setting the BDRV_O_NOCACHE flag for the block
device being restored to and sets `cache=none` for vma restores.
Since this seems to affect only zvol's, conditionally set the flag only
during restores to storages with type `zfspool`.
pve-qemu:
Christian Ebner (1):
add optional no-cache flag to bypass host page cache on pbs-restore
...no-cache-flag-to-skip-host-page-cach.patch | 64 +++++++++++++++++++
debian/patches/series | 1 +
2 files changed, 65 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/patches/pve/0047-pbs-restore-add-no-cache-flag-to-skip-host-page-cach.patch
qemu-server:
Christian Ebner (2):
pbs-restore: set 'no-cache' on block devices backed by zfspool
vma restore: skip page cache on block devices backed by zfspool
src/PVE/QemuServer.pm | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-18 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-18 7:50 Christian Ebner [this message]
2026-08-18 7:50 ` [PATCH pve-qemu 1/3] add optional no-cache flag to bypass host page cache on pbs-restore Christian Ebner
2026-08-18 7:50 ` [PATCH qemu-server 2/3] pbs-restore: set 'no-cache' on block devices backed by zfspool Christian Ebner
2026-08-18 7:50 ` [PATCH qemu-server 3/3] vma restore: skip page cache " Christian Ebner
2026-08-19 10:02 ` [PATCH pve-qemu qemu-server 0/3] bypass host page cache for restore on zvol Fiona Ebner
2026-08-19 10:43 ` Christian Ebner
2026-08-19 14:47 ` Christian Ebner
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