Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] block: reduce reliance on bs->job pointer

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

ping, I think this one is up to you, jtc?

On 01/26/2016 06:54 PM, John Snow wrote:
> This is a small collection of patches to reduce our use of the bs->job
> pointer where possible. There are still more usages in the code, but
> this cuts down on a few.
> 
> The goal is to eventually eliminate all of them and allow multiple block
> jobs to run concurrently, but design on what that will look like is
> on-going.
> 
> In the meantime, eliminate a few obviously needless references to
> bs->job by allowing more systems to carry pointers to jobs directly
> instead of trying to fish the pointer out of the BDS all the time.
> 
> ===
> v2:
> ===
> 
> Key:
> [----] : patches are identical
> [####] : number of functional differences between upstream/downstream patch
> [down] : patch is downstream-only
> The flags [FC] indicate (F)unctional and (C)ontextual differences, respectively
> 
> 001/5:[----] [--] 'block: Allow mirror_start to return job references'
> 002/5:[----] [--] 'block: Allow stream_start to return job references'
> 003/5:[----] [--] 'block: allow backup_start to return job references'
> 004/5:[down] 'block/backup: Pack Notifier within BackupBlockJob'
> 005/5:[0006] [FC] 'blockjob: add Job parameter to BlockCompletionFunc'
> 
> 4: Rewritten to pack the notifier within the job, instead of the job within
>    a subclassed notifier. [Paolo]
> 5: Remove junk assert and extraneous local BDS variable. [Kevin]
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> For convenience, this branch is available at:
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git branch block-multijob2
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/tree/block-multijob2
> 
> This version is tagged block-multijob2-v2:
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/releases/tag/block-multijob2-v2
> 
> John Snow (5):
>   block: Allow mirror_start to return job references
>   block: Allow stream_start to return job references
>   block: allow backup_start to return job references
>   block/backup: Pack Notifier within BackupBlockJob
>   blockjob: add Job parameter to BlockCompletionFunc
> 
>  block/backup.c            |  58 +++++++------
>  block/commit.c            |   2 +-
>  block/mirror.c            |  74 ++++++++--------
>  block/stream.c            |  10 ++-
>  blockdev.c                | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  blockjob.c                |  13 ++-
>  include/block/block.h     |   2 +
>  include/block/block_int.h |  27 +++---
>  include/block/blockjob.h  |   6 +-
>  qemu-img.c                |  16 ++--
>  tests/test-blockjob-txn.c |   4 +-
>  11 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-)
> 

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—js