Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 3/3] block/gluster: add support for multiple gluster servers

[Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:23:35AM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 05:04:02AM -0500, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 9:37:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 11/10/2015 02:09 AM, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote:
> > > > This patch adds a way to specify multiple volfile servers to the gluster
> > > > block backend of QEMU with tcp|rdma transport types and their port numbers.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > 
> > > Overall, I think we are probably on the right track for the QMP
> > > interface; but since blockdev-add is NOT stable yet for 2.5, it won't
> > > hurt to wait to get this in until 2.6, to make sure we have plenty of
> > > time; and it would also be nice to make sure we get nbd, nfs, rbd,
> > > sheepdog all supported in the same release; possibly by sharing common
> > > types instead of introducing GlusterServer as a one-off type.
> > 
> > We are hoping this to go in 2.5 which is really important for gluster
> > hyper-convergence release (next Feb).
> > 
> > Is there any possibility of getting exception for this patch ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Prasanna
> >
> 
> Today is the hard freeze for 2.5 for new features. As the v14 patches
> hit the list today, I will review them, and if they look good I can
> pull patches into my tree. 
> 
> Whether there is an exception is really up to Peter Maydell
> (added him to the cc) - if all looks good with the patches, I could
> send a pull request out later today with them, but that will be late
> in the evening for Peter.
>

I wanted to give a follow-up - as Eric pointed out in his reviews, the
API interface could be made better by using some QAPI features that
are not currently in qemu (discriminated unions). 

So I won't issue a pull request for this for 2.5, and we'll pick it up for
2.6 once the interface issues can be worked out.

-Jeff