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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, jcody@redhat.com,
	armbru@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] block: Add op blocker type "device IO"
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:40:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150514024059.GE862@ad.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55536940.9030301@redhat.com>

On Wed, 05/13 17:09, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/05/2015 17:02, Fam Zheng wrote:
> >> > For example, SCSI requests can result in many consecutive I/Os:
> >> > 
> >> > (1) FUA requests are split in write+flush
> >> > 
> >> > (2) adapters that do not use QEMUSGList-based I/O only read 128K at a time
> >> > 
> >> > (3) WRITE SAME operations are also split in chunks
> >> > 
> >> > (4) UNMAP operations process one descriptor at a time
> > I don't understand the point of these examples. If we don't return -EBUSY here,
> > the request will sneak into block/io.c and perhaps break qmp transaction
> > semantics, if it lands between two backups.
> 
> It won't, because after blocking DEVICE_IO you will always drain I/O and
> the bdrv_drain will loop until the above are all satisfied.

That's right, I'll drop this patch.

Fam

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 17:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] Fix transactional snapshot with virtio-blk dataplane and NBD export Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] block: Add op blocker type "device IO" Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 11:32   ` Wen Congyang
2015-05-13 12:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-13 15:02     ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 15:09       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14  2:40         ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] block: Add op blocker notifier list Fam Zheng
2015-05-14  5:32   ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] block-backend: Add blk_op_blocker_add_notifier Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/11] virtio-blk: Move complete_request to 'ops' structure Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/11] virtio-blk: Don't handle output when there is "device IO" op blocker Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 10:26   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-13 11:09     ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/11] nbd-server: Clear "can_read" when "device io" blocker is set Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] blockdev: Block device IO during internal snapshot transaction Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/11] blockdev: Block device IO during external " Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] blockdev: Block device IO during drive-backup transaction Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] blockdev: Block device IO during blockdev-backup transaction Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 11:22   ` Wen Congyang
2015-05-13 12:55     ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-14  1:12       ` Wen Congyang
2015-05-14  1:53         ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 12:21   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-13 15:08     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-13 15:34       ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/11] block: Block "device IO" during bdrv_drain and bdrv_drain_all Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 10:26   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-13 11:08     ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 11:33       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-13 15:17         ` Fam Zheng
2015-05-13 15:25           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14  3:02             ` Fam Zheng

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