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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: l00284672 <lizhengui@huawei.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, eric.fangyi@huawei.com, armbru@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com, jiangyiwen@huawei.com,
	stefanha@redhat.com, wangjie88@huawei.com,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] file-posix: unlock qemu_global_mutex before pread when attach disk
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:49:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190611084941.GB8112@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98826c00-3dae-3972-c68a-f86f544c2093@huawei.com>

Am 11.06.2019 um 04:53 hat l00284672 geschrieben:
> -- Would the "open" hang as well in that case?
>    The "open" doesn't hang in that case.
> 
> Do you have any better solutions to solve this problem in the case?

Yes, but unfortunately it's a lot harder.

This is roughly what you'd have to do:

1. Make QMP command handlers async (patches from Marc-André are on the
   list)
2. Stop using HMP drive_add and instead switch to QMP blockdev-add
3. Move the blockdev-add code into a coroutine
4. Make .bdrv_open a coroutine_fn
5. Move the pread() in file-posix to the thread pool and let the
   coroutine yield while the request is running

Only with all of these pieces in place we'll be able to release the
global mutex while we're waiting for the pread() to complete.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-10 13:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] file-posix: unlock qemu_global_mutex before pread when attach disk Zhengui li
2019-06-10 13:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-10 14:51   ` l00284672
2019-06-10 16:03     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-11  2:53       ` l00284672
2019-06-11  8:49         ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2019-06-10 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " no-reply

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