Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/13] curl: fix curl read

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 06/07 09:46, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:01:57PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:25:46PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > > v7:
> > >   13: Added:
> > >       curl: change timeout to 30 seconds
> > 
> > I tested this against:
> > 
> > (1) HTTP to Apache server over slow but local wifi.
> > 
> > (2) HTTP to a remote ISO (on another continent).
> > 
> > Test (1) is fine.
> > 
> > Test (2) gives plenty of I/O errors.  I guess that 30 seconds isn't
> > sufficient here.
> > 
> > I should note that current upstream qemu *works* in both cases.
> > Although the timeout in current qemu is much shorter (5 seconds), for
> > some reason this does not affect the test.
> > 
> > I'm also confused about what problem this patch series is trying to
> > fix, since upstream qemu works fine for me with the latest curl.
> 
> One problem I've had with the upstream code is that HTTP servers which
> do not support Range: headers fail in a weird way (I don't remember
> exactly what happens).  This series does improve this by explicitly
> checking for Range: header support.
> 
What I see is it always returns the first sectors to guest.

> But there is a lot of other refactoring going on which is reasonable
> only if it works as well or better than the upstream code.
> 
In this case it doesn't :(
I can probably send a fix for range and drop the refactoring for now.

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Fam