From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Disk image shared and exclusive locks.
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:58:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091207145807.GC10336@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091207142511.GP24530@redhat.com>
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> The only other alternative would be for the destination to open the disks,
> but not immediately acquire the locks. In the final stage of migration have
> the source release its lock & signal to the dest that it can now acquire
> the lock. The assumption being that the lock acquisition is far less likely
> to fail than the open(), so we focus on making sure we can properly handle
> open() failure.
This is what we've implemented as a prototype for sheepdog, with bdrv_claim
(happens on vm_start) and bdrv_release (happens on exit/vm_stop) hooks
available to block drivers.
Cheers,
Chris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-04 16:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Disk image shared and exclusive locks Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-04 17:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-04 21:57 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-04 22:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-05 17:31 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 17:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-05 17:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 17:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 10:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 10:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 10:48 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 10:56 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 11:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 11:51 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 12:06 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 10:45 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 11:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 11:30 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 11:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 11:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 11:49 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 11:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 14:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-07 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 14:01 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 14:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 14:28 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-08 9:40 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 11:04 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 10:58 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 11:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 13:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 14:08 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 14:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 14:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 14:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-08 9:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-08 10:16 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 14:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-07 9:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 10:39 ` Chris Webb
2009-12-07 13:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 13:38 ` Chris Webb
2009-12-07 13:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 14:25 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-12-07 14:58 ` Chris Webb [this message]
2009-12-07 14:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH VERSION 2] " Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-07 15:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-08 8:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-08 10:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-12-08 10:25 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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