[Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 0/3] block migration fixes

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 06:06:02PM +0900, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:02:12PM +0900, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote:
> >>Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >>>Following patchset fixes block migration corruption issues.
> >>
> >>Hi Marcelo,
> >>
> >>Thanks for looking into this issue.  Although we tried your patches, we're still
> >>seeing the corruption.  If we execute block migration while copying a file
> >>locally, md5sum of the copied file doesn't match with the original.  Sometimes,
> >>the filesystem returns an I/O error.
> >>
> >>Could you let us know how you tested and debugged?  Did you use blkverify?
> >
> >Yoshiaki,
> >
> >I first reproduced corruption by copying a large file during "migrate
> >-i", with shared base on qcow2 filesystem, as in your original report.
> >
> >To debug the problem, file with different byte pattern at every 1MB
> >(size of dirty chunk) was created and copied directly to an IDE disk in
> >the guest. Raw format used for the disk image.
> >
> >With this patchset, i'm not able to reproduce the original issue
> >anymore.
> >
> >Can you please provide more details on how to reproduce?
> 
> Marcelo,
> 
> We double checked and the patchset does seem to fix the problem.
> The was a mistake in our test procedure.  Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yoshi

I was also experiencing corruption on automated test, but it turned out
to be fixed by kvm.git's ae8894c00b560bde4.

Thanks.