From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z84fG-0001zs-Bq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:45:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z84fF-00039U-1B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:45:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:45:38 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20150625104538.GC12846@ad.nay.redhat.com> References: <1433742974-20128-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> <20150608130242.GE1961@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> <20150611082911.GB22459@ad.nay.redhat.com> <20150624090831.GC22582@ad.nay.redhat.com> <558AE25D.4010508@redhat.com> <20150625010219.GC17695@ad.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150625010219.GC17695@ad.nay.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v7 0/8] block: Mirror discarded sectors List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Jeff Cody , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-stable@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi , jsnow@redhat.com, wangxiaolong@ucloud.cn On Thu, 06/25 09:02, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Wed, 06/24 19:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > > > On 24/06/2015 11:08, Fam Zheng wrote: > > >> Stefan, > > >> > > >> The only controversial patches are the qmp/drive-mirror ones (1-3), while > > >> patches 4-8 are still useful on their own: they fix the mentioned crash and > > >> improve iotests. > > >> > > >> Shall we merge the second half (of course none of them depend on 1-3) now that > > >> softfreeze is approaching? > > > > > > Stefan, would you consider applying patches 4-8? > > > > Actually why not apply all of them? Even if blockdev-mirror is a > > superior interface in the long run, the current behavior of drive-mirror > > can cause images to balloon up to the full size, which is bad. > > Extending drive-mirror is okay IMHO for 2.4. > > > > Before we do that, Andrey Korolyov has reported a hang issue with unmap=true, > I'll take a look at it today. There is no problem, the observasion by Andrey was just that qmp command takes a few minutes before returning, because he didn't apply https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02511.html Fam