Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] blkdebug: Add latency injection rule type

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

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On 13.02.19 21:49, Marc Olson wrote:
> On 2/13/19 7:48 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> On 12.02.19 22:21, Marc Olson wrote:
>>> On 1/11/19 7:00 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>>>> On 12.11.18 08:06, Marc Olson wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>>> diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
>>>>> index d4fe710..72f7861 100644
>>>>> --- a/qapi/block-core.json
>>>>> +++ b/qapi/block-core.json
>>>>> @@ -3057,6 +3057,34 @@
>>>>>                '*immediately': 'bool' } }
>>>>>      ##
>>>>> +# @BlkdebugDelayOptions:
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# Describes a single latency injection for blkdebug.
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# @event:       trigger event
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# @state:       the state identifier blkdebug needs to be in to
>>>>> +#               actually trigger the event; defaults to "any"
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# @latency:     The delay to add to an I/O, in microseconds.
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# @sector:      specifies the sector index which has to be affected
>>>>> +#               in order to actually trigger the event; defaults to
>>>>> "any
>>>>> +#               sector"
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# @once:        disables further events after this one has been
>>>>> +#               triggered; defaults to false
>>>>> +#
>>>>> +# Since: 3.1
>>>> Well, 4.0 now, sorry...
>>> Baking version numbers into code is downright silly. Every single
>>> version of this patch has made a comment along the lines of, "oops, it
>>> didn't get reviewed in time for the next version bump, so you have to
>>> resubmit." With a fast moving project, this is nonsense. If you're
>>> looking at the code, you should have access to the git history as well
>>> to determine the version.
>> True, but these comments are used to generate documentation (e.g.
>> docs/interopt/qemu-qmp-ref.7 in the build directory).  So they are used
>> by people who don't have access to the git history.
>>
>> It might be possible to generate that information from git-blame when
>> generating the documentation, but how would trivial fixes be handled
>> that are no functional changes?  For instance, it seems difficult to me
>> to distinguish between a spelling change for some parameter description
>> and a change in behavior.
>>
>> (Then again, we shouldn't have such behavioral changes, hm.)
>>
>> To me personally, the easiest thing would seem to be some convention to
>> write ***INSERT VERSION HERE*** into the code and then the maintainer
>> can just find an replace all instances of that when applying the
>> patches.  But that sounds a bit silly...
>>
>> (I don't have an issue with adjusting the version numbers myself as they
>> are, but it's just as hard for me to find and replace all of them as it
>> is for you.  And since you're probably going to send a v4 anyway...)
>>
>> In the end, it's up to the QAPI maintainers.
> 
> IFF I submit by the end of the week, what version number shall I choose?

4.0 is still the next one.

>> [...]
>>
>>>>> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/071 b/tests/qemu-iotests/071
>>>>> index 48b4955..976f747 100755
>>>>> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/071
>>>>> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/071
>>>>> @@ -100,6 +100,69 @@ $QEMU_IO -c "open -o
>>>>> driver=$IMGFMT,file.driver=blkdebug,file.inject-error.event
>>>>>             -c 'read -P 42 0x38000 512'
>>>>>      echo
>>>>> +echo "=== Testing blkdebug latency through filename ==="
>>>>> +echo
>>>>> +
>>>>> +$QEMU_IO -c "open -o
>>>>> file.driver=blkdebug,file.inject-delay.event=write_aio,file.inject-delay.latency=10000
>>>>>
>>>>> $TEST_IMG" \
>>>>> +         -c 'aio_write -P 42 0x28000 512' \
>>>>> +         -c 'aio_read -P 42 0x38000 512' \
>>>>> +         | _filter_qemu_io
>>>>> +
>>>>> +echo
>>>>> +echo "=== Testing blkdebug latency through file blockref ==="
>>>>> +echo
>>>>> +
>>>>> +$QEMU_IO -c "open -o
>>>>> driver=$IMGFMT,file.driver=blkdebug,file.inject-delay.event=write_aio,file.inject-delay.latency=10000,file.image.filename=$TEST_IMG"
>>>>>
>>>>> \
>>>>> +         -c 'aio_write -P 42 0x28000 512' \
>>>>> +         -c 'aio_read -P 42 0x38000 512' \
>>>>> +         | _filter_qemu_io
>>>>> +
>>>>> +# Using QMP is synchronous by default, so even though we would
>>>>> +# expect reordering due to using the aio_* commands, they are
>>>>> +# not. The purpose of this test is to verify that the driver
>>>>> +# can be setup via QMP, and IO can complete. See the qemu-io
>>>>> +# test above to prove delay functionality
>>>> But it doesn't prove that because the output is filtered.  To prove it,
>>>> you'd probably need to use null-co as the protocol (so there is as
>>>> little noise as possible) and then parse the qemu-io output to show
>>>> that
>>>> the time is always above 10 ms.
>>>>
>>>> I leave it to you whether you'd like to go through that pain.
>>> There's not a great way to prove it without doing a lot of parsing
>>> changes in testing. I'll consider an update to this patch, but I think
>>> this series has carried on long enough.
>> I agree in this instance, but I'd like to note still that "this series
>> has carried on long enough" is not an argument to merge bad code (or
>> something incomplete without promise of a follow-up).  This is just a
>> test for blkdebug, though, so it's OK (with the comment fixed, because
>> it doesn't prove anything).
> I wasn't implying that it's ok to merge bad code, but that at some point
> we have to just paint the shed a color and move on. At the risk of
> excess drama, at what point does a small addition become a complete
> tear-down and rebuild?

Depends on the case whether a tear down is necessary. :-)

>> (I'm sorry for not having looked at this series for so long, but qemu is
>> not my own, so it isn't like I could pay for my wrong by accepting
>> something incomplete -- if it were more important than this single test
>> case.)
>>
>> Also, we do support Python for iotests, and parsing should be simpler
>> there.  Since blkdebug is just a debugging driver, I'm fine with not
>> knowing whether its features work, though.
>>
>> Maybe I'll write the test, that would kind of pay for my wrong...
> 
> I think the real fix is to make QMP support async IO, but if you'd like
> to do more parsing, that's fine too.

Hm, yeah, that would work, too.  But that's definitely more complicated
than a bit of parsing...

Max


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