[RFC PATCH 0/6] block: Make raw_co_get_allocated_file_size asynchronous

[Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>]

As discussed in another thread [1], here's an RFC addressing a VCPU
softlockup encountered when issuing QMP commands that target a disk
placed on NFS.

Since QMP commands happen with the qemu_global_mutex locked, any
command that takes too long to finish will block other threads waiting
to take the global mutex. One such thread could be a VCPU thread going
out of the guest to handle IO.

This is the case when issuing the QMP command query-block, which
eventually calls raw_co_get_allocated_file_size(). This function makes
an 'fstat' call that has been observed to take a long time (seconds)
over NFS.

NFS latency issues aside, we can improve the situation by not blocking
VCPU threads while the command is running.

Move the 'fstat' call into the thread-pool and make the necessary
adaptations to ensure raw_co_get_allocated_file_size runs in a
coroutine in the block driver aio_context.

1- Question about QMP and BQL
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-05/msg03141.html

CI run: https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu/-/pipelines/876583685

Fabiano Rosas (3):
  block: Remove bdrv_query_block_node_info
  block: Mark bdrv_co_get_allocated_file_size() as mixed
  block: Allow bdrv_get_allocated_file_size to run in bdrv context

João Silva (1):
  block: Add a thread-pool version of fstat

Lin Ma (2):
  Convert query-block/info_block to coroutine
  Convert query-block/info_block to coroutine

 block/file-posix.c             | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 block/monitor/block-hmp-cmds.c |  2 +-
 block/qapi.c                   | 51 +++++++++++++++-------------------
 blockdev.c                     |  6 ++--
 hmp-commands-info.hx           |  1 +
 include/block/block-hmp-cmds.h |  2 +-
 include/block/block-io.h       |  2 +-
 include/block/qapi.h           |  3 --
 include/block/raw-aio.h        |  4 ++-
 qapi/block-core.json           |  5 ++--
 10 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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