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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block]  Meeting notes on -blockdev, dynamic backend reconfiguration
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:03:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207100339.GB2286@lemon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161207094832.GA4773@noname.str.redhat.com>

On Wed, 12/07 10:48, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > If so I think there is no race to worry about, mirror-filter should go
> > away only after a QMP command.
> 
> Currently, a mirror job goes away whenever it is done. This is not
> directly tied to a QMP command.

Ah right, block-job-complete is only "start to complete" and the job goes away
at some later point. I thought this is "the" QMP command but it is not.

> 
> Of course, in the new job API we want an explicit job-delete, so in
> that case it wouldn't happen, but we need to keep the old case for
> compatibility.

Another possibility is to add a placeholder node in the right location first
then fill in the actual throttling node once created. QMP owns the placeholder
node so it won't suddenly vanish when mirror job goes away.

Fam

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05 12:03 [Qemu-devel] Meeting notes on -blockdev, dynamic backend reconfiguration Markus Armbruster
2016-12-06 11:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-12-07  2:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Fam Zheng
2016-12-07  9:48   ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Kevin Wolf
2016-12-07 10:03     ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2016-12-08 12:46       ` Markus Armbruster
2016-12-08 13:47         ` Fam Zheng
2016-12-12 13:58           ` Markus Armbruster
2016-12-12 14:43             ` Fam Zheng
2016-12-12 18:23               ` Markus Armbruster
2016-12-13  6:51                 ` Fam Zheng

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