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Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 16:54:36 +0200
From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] block: Fix op blockers for inactive
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Am 04.05.2017 um 18:52 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben:
> Fam's image locking series introduced some special-casing in the file-posix
> driver that avoids taking locks when the image is inactive. While this works,
> it really isn't the job of the file-posix driver, but the core block layer
> should consider that inactive nodes require a lot less permissions.
> 
> This series integrates op blockers with bdrv_inactivate/invalidate_cache() to
> solve this problem gennerically, and removes the workaround in file-posix.

Applied to the block branch.

Kevin