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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] block: switch bdrv_read()/bdrv_write() to coroutines
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:53:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E958DD6.5000805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317831427-477-4-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Am 05.10.2011 18:17, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> The bdrv_read()/bdrv_write() functions call .bdrv_read()/.bdrv_write().
> They should go through bdrv_co_do_readv() and bdrv_co_do_writev()
> instead in order to unify request processing code across sync, aio, and
> coroutine interfaces.  This is also an important step towards removing
> BlockDriverState .bdrv_read()/.bdrv_write() in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This breaks drivers that only provide synchronous .bdrv_read/write.
Attempts to read or write anything results in endless recursion.

Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-05 16:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] block: do request processing in a coroutine Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-05 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] block: directly invoke .bdrv_aio_*() in bdrv_co_io_em() Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-05 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] block: split out bdrv_co_do_readv() and bdrv_co_do_writev() Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-05 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] block: switch bdrv_read()/bdrv_write() to coroutines Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-11  6:44   ` Zhi Yong Wu
2011-10-12  9:03     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-12  9:11       ` Zhi Yong Wu
2011-10-12 12:53   ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2011-10-05 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] block: switch bdrv_aio_readv() " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-12 13:07   ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-05 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] block: mark blocks dirty on coroutine write completion Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-05 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] block: switch bdrv_aio_writev() to coroutines Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-11  6:46   ` Zhi Yong Wu
2011-10-11  6:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] block: do request processing in a coroutine Zhi Yong Wu
2011-10-12 13:21 ` Kevin Wolf

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