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1. support "writeback" and "writethru" mode toggling for virtio-blk
conditionally. When starting DM with "writethru" parameter in
virtio-blk, guest OS could not toggle cache mode. When starting DM
with "writeback" parameter in virtio-blk, guest OS could toggle
cache mode.
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DM cmdline | toggle support
------------+-----------------
writeback | yes
writethru | no
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2. To toggle cache mode, run below command in guest OS:
echo "write back" > /sys/devices/xxx/vdx/cache_type
OR
echo "write through" > /sys/devices/xxx/vdx/cache_type
Signed-off-by: Conghui Chen <conghui.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
ACRN Device Model
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Introduction
============
The ACRN Device Model provides **device sharing** capabilities between the Service OS and Guest OSs. It is a component that is used in conjunction with the `ACRN Hypervisor`_ and this is installed within the Service OS. You can find out more about Project ACRN on the `Project ACRN documentation`_ website.
Building the Device Model
=========================
Build dependencies
******************
* For Clear Linux
.. code-block:: console
sudo swupd bundle-add os-clr-on-clr \
os-utils-gui-dev
* For CentOS
.. code-block:: console
sudo yum install gcc \
libuuid-devel \
openssl-devel \
libpciaccess-devel \
libusb-devel
* For Fedora 27
.. code-block:: console
sudo dnf install gcc \
libuuid-devel \
openssl-devel \
libpciaccess-devel \
libusb-devel
Build
*****
To build the Device Model
.. code-block:: console
make
To clean the build artefacts
.. code-block:: console
make clean
Runtime dependencies
********************
* On CentOS
.. code-block:: console
sudo yum install openssl-libs \
zlib \
libpciaccess \
libuuid \
libusb
* On Fedora 27
.. code-block:: console
sudo dnf install openssl-libs \
zlib \
libpciaccess \
libuuid \
libusb
.. _`ACRN Hypervisor`: https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor
.. _`Project ACRN documentation`: https://projectacrn.github.io/