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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	"Lukas Straub" <lukasstraub2@web.de>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
	"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Max Reitz" <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce 'yank' oob qmp command to recover from hanging qemu
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 13:25:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200513122554.GH3225@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31bb69c3-5149-70cf-7527-54680b1e3f6b@redhat.com>

* Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 13/05/20 13:26, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Are you referring to the in-kernel NFS client hangs here ?  AFAIK, it is
> > impossible to do anything to get out of those hangs from userspace, because
> > the thread is stuck in an uninterruptable sleep in kernel space.
> > 
> > If using the in-QEMU NFS client, then there is a network connection that
> > can be yanked just like the NBD client.
> 
> But it's a bad idea to yank it (and also the NBD client) because you're
> not sure which wites have made it to the server (and to the medium) and
> which haven't.

No, that's OK - if you look at the COLO case, and some other cases,
you've got a dead storage device but your redundant pair might be OK;
so it's OK to yank it.
Other similar storage cases are trying to migrate a VM that has one dead
disk, even if you know and accept it's dead and unresponding, you often
can't kill it off if the device is hung.

> Effectively, the in-QEMU NFS client and NBD client are always operating
> in "soft" mode, but we should always treat that as a bug (which cannot
> be fixed) and not a feature for read-write images.
Dave

> 
> Paolo
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11 11:14 [PATCH 0/5] Introduce 'yank' oob qmp command to recover from hanging qemu Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] Introduce yank feature Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 11:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] io/channel.c,io/channel-socket.c: Add " Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 11:51   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-11 20:00     ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-12  8:52       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-11 11:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] block/nbd.c: " Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 16:19   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-11 17:05     ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 17:24       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-12  8:54       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-15  9:48         ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-15 10:04           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-15 10:14             ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-15 10:26               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-15 13:03                 ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-15 13:45                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-11 11:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] chardev/char-socket.c: " Lukas Straub
2020-05-12  8:56   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-11 11:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] migration: " Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 11:49 ` [PATCH 0/5] Introduce 'yank' oob qmp command to recover from hanging qemu Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-11 12:07   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-11 12:17     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-11 15:46       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-12  9:32         ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-12  9:43           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-12 18:58             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-13  8:41               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-12 19:42             ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-13 10:32             ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-13 10:53               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-13 11:13                 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-13 11:26                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-13 11:58                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-13 12:25                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2020-05-13 12:32                       ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-13 12:18                     ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-13 12:56                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-13 13:08                     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-13 13:48                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-13 13:57                         ` Eric Blake
2020-05-13 14:06                         ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-13 14:18                           ` Eric Blake
2020-09-01 10:35                   ` Markus Armbruster
2020-05-11 19:41       ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-11 18:12   ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-12  9:03     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-12  9:06       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-12  9:09     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-13 19:12 ` Lukas Straub
2020-05-14 10:41   ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-14 11:01   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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