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From: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	"Benoît Canet" <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>,
	"Fam Zheng" <famz@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Max Reitz" <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Block layer meeting notes from June 10/11
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:53:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140613135355.GB20898@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QU1L=VmuQM8ZxsWoNf3dpukhdDrExk7_3e9T1HaZyXm8A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:28:28PM +0800, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>

<snip>

>  * Mutual exclusion of operations/background jobs (bs->in_use / BlockOpType)
>   * Streaming in two different parts of the backing chain - allowed?
> (Benoît though that not, but does anything break?)
>   * Does streaming only require that streamed images stay read-only
> (i.e. backing chain segment on which the operation is performed)
>   * Live commit in the opposite direction at the same time?
> 
> Action:
>  * Draw up matrix of operations (mirror, stream, resize, etc)
>  * Make op blocker mechanism use matrix as data instead of code
> (define an array)
>  * Enforce that new QMP/QAPI commands and block jobs add themselves to
> the matrix
>  * Recursively add blockers to child nodes (driver method?) [Benoit]
> 

Benoit, you have quite a few items on your list - would it be useful
if I worked on this?  It would dovetail nicely with the node-name
commit/stream patches.

Thanks,
Jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-13 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-13 13:28 [Qemu-devel] Block layer meeting notes from June 10/11 Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-13 13:40 ` Jeff Cody
2014-06-13 13:53 ` Jeff Cody [this message]
2014-06-13 14:17   ` Benoît Canet
2014-06-13 14:49     ` Benoît Canet

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