From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
Tu Bo <tubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 6/7] qemu-iotests: 141: reduce likelihood of race condition on systems with fast IO
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:11:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160408111153.GD4700@noname.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shyxjh9w.fsf@oc4731375738.ibm.com>
Am 07.04.2016 um 22:27 hat Sascha Silbe geschrieben:
> Dear Max,
>
> Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 05.04.2016 11:21, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> >> On systems with fast IO, qemu-io may write more than 1 MiB before
> >> receiving the block-job-cancel command, causing the test case to fail.
> >>
> >> 141 is inherently racy, but we can at least reduce the likelihood of the
> >> job completing before the cancel command arrives by bumping the size of
> >> the data getting written; we'll try 32 MiB for a start.
> >
> > Hm, interesting. I tried to prevent this by setting the block jobs'
> > speed to 1, which should make it stop after the block job has processed
> > the first block of data.
>
> Hmm, seems like I didn't quite understand the way the test works
> then.
>
> @Kevin: Please do NOT queue this patch.
No problem. I expect this series to go through Max's tree anyway.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-08 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-05 9:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] next round of qemu-iotests fixes Sascha Silbe
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] qemu-iotests: check: don't place files with predictable names in /tmp Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 15:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-07 19:54 ` Sascha Silbe
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] qemu-iotests: fix 051 on non-PC architectures Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 15:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] qemu-iotests: iotests.VM: remove qtest socket on error Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 15:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-07 19:58 ` Sascha Silbe
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu-iotests: 148: properly skip test if quorum support is missing Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 16:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] qemu-iotests: 068: don't require KVM Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 16:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] qemu-iotests: 141: reduce likelihood of race condition on systems with fast IO Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 16:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-06 16:30 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-07 20:27 ` Sascha Silbe
2016-04-08 11:11 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2016-04-08 12:01 ` Sascha Silbe
2016-04-08 12:31 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-08 13:46 ` Sascha Silbe
2016-04-05 9:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] qemu-iotests: iotests.py: get rid of __all__ Sascha Silbe
2016-04-06 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Max Reitz
2016-04-08 14:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/7] next round of qemu-iotests fixes Max Reitz
2016-04-08 17:17 ` Sascha Silbe
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