[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/6] block: ignore flush requests when storage is clean

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

Changes from v6:
- Removed failed flush traces in block tests 026 071 089
- Changed BLOCK_JOB_READY event order in block tests 141 144

Changes from v4:
- Moved to write generation scheme instead of dirty flag
- Added retry setup to IDE PIO and FLUSH requests

Changes from v3:
- Fixed a typo in commit message
- Rebased on Kevin'n origin/block

Changes from v2:
- Better comments
- Rebased on latest master

Changes from v1:
- Flush requests that should be skipped will now wait for completion
of any previous requests already in flight
- Fixed IDE and AHCI tests to dirty media for new flush behaviour
- Fixed a problem in IDE CMD_FLUSH_CACHE failure handling

Signed-off-by: Evgeny Yakovlev <eyakovlev@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

Evgeny Yakovlev (6):
  ide: refactor retry_unit set and clear into separate function
  ide: set retry_unit for PIO and FLUSH requests
  tests: in IDE and AHCI tests perform DMA write before flushing
  block: ignore flush requests when storage is clean
  tests: removed skipped flushes from block test traces
  tests: changed block job ready event generation order

 block.c                            |  3 +++
 block/io.c                         | 21 ++++++++++++++++
 hw/ide/core.c                      | 24 +++++++++++++-----
 include/block/block_int.h          |  5 ++++
 tests/ahci-test.c                  | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 tests/ide-test.c                   | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/qemu-iotests/026.out.nocache | 50 --------------------------------------
 tests/qemu-iotests/071.out         |  8 ------
 tests/qemu-iotests/089.out         |  2 --
 tests/qemu-iotests/141.out         |  4 +--
 tests/qemu-iotests/144.out         |  2 +-
 11 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

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