On a Wednesday in 2021, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
This lets the app expose the virtual SCSI or IDE disks as solid state
devices by setting a rate of '1', or rotational media by setting a
rate between 1025 and 65534.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
---
docs/formatdomain.rst | 13 ++++++++++---
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 5 +++++
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 11 +++++++++++
src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index 741130bf21..224f44a0a2 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -2885,10 +2885,17 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element.
to "closed". NB, the value of ``tray`` could be updated while the domain is
running. The optional attribute ``removable`` sets the removable flag for USB
disks, and its value can be either "on" or "off", defaulting to
"off".
+ The optional attribute ``rotation_rate`` sets the rotation rate of the
+ storage for disks on a SCSI, IDE, or SATA bus. Values in the range 1025 to
+ 65534 are used to indicate rotational media spee in revolutions per minute.
speed
+ A value of one is used to indicate solid state, or otherwise
non-rotational,
+ storage. These values are not required to match the values of the underlying
+ host storage.
:since:`Since 0.0.3`; ``bus`` attribute :since:`since 0.4.3`; ``tray``
attribute :since:`since 0.9.11`; "usb" attribute value
:since:`since after 0.4.4`; "sata" attribute value :since:`since 0.9.7`;
- "removable" attribute value :since:`since 1.1.3`
+ "removable" attribute value :since:`since 1.1.3`;
+ "rotation_rate" attribute value :since:`since 7.3.0`
``iotune``
The optional ``iotune`` element provides the ability to provide additional
per-device I/O tuning, with values that can vary for each device (contrast
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko(a)redhat.com>
Jano