Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] blk: fix aio context loss on media change

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 03/15 13:06, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > 
> > > Stefan, Paolo, do you remember the details why we didn't even do a
> > > simple fix like the one below? I think there were some patches on the
> > > list, no?
> > 
> > ISTM the concern was mostly "what about other BB in the graph?"
> > 
> > Should the new op blocker API be used in this one (a new type of perm)?
> 
> If we know what operation to block, that's an option. Would "change the
> node's AioContext" work for it?
> 
> I think it would effectively mean that you need to attach the device
> first and then jobs etc. respect the AioContext, whereas the opposite
> order breaks because they don't have callbacks to adjust the AioContext
> after the fact.
> 
> This seems to match what's actually safe, so it might really be as easy
> as this.

Yes, this sounds good to me.

Vladimir, would you like to implement this? It would be good to have this fixed
in 2.9.

Fam