Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] disk deadlines

["Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>]

On 09/08/2015 01:11 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 08.09.2015 um 11:20 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
>> [Cc'ing qemu-block@nongnu.org]
>>
>> On Tue, 09/08 11:00, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
>>> To avoid such situation this patchset introduces patch per-drive option
>>> "disk-deadlines=on|off" which is unset by default.
>> The general idea sounds very nice. Thanks!
>>
>> Should we allow user configuration on the timeout?  If so, the option should be
>> something like "timeout-seconds=0,1,2...".  Also I think we could use werror
>> and rerror to control the handling policy (whether to ignore/report/stop on
>> timeout).
> Yes, I think the timeout needs to be configurable. However, the only
> action that makes sense is stop. Everything else would be unsafe because
> the running request could still complete at a later point.
>
> Another question I have related to safety is whether (and how) you can
> migrate away from a host that has been stopped because of a timeout. I
> guess migration needs to be blocked then?
>
> Kevin
this sounds reasonable. Noted for the next iteration.