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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>,
	KVM mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	QEMU devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Juan Jose Quintela Carreira <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and qemu.git -> Migration + disk stress introduces qcow2 corruptions
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:25:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBE499E.4030100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EBCF5DA.1000605@redhat.com>

On 11/11/2011 12:15 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 10.11.2011 22:30, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > Live migration with qcow2 or any other image format is just not going to work 
> > right now even with proper clustered storage.  I think doing a block level flush 
> > cache interface and letting block devices decide how to do it is the best approach.
>
> I would really prefer reusing the existing open/close code. It means
> less (duplicated) code, is existing code that is well tested and doesn't
> make migration much of a special case.
>
> If you want to avoid reopening the file on the OS level, we can reopen
> only the topmost layer (i.e. the format, but not the protocol) for now
> and in 1.1 we can use bdrv_reopen().
>

Intuitively I dislike _reopen style interfaces.  If the second open
yields different results from the first, does it invalidate any
computations in between?

What's wrong with just delaying the open?

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-12 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-09 16:29 [Qemu-devel] qemu and qemu.git -> Migration + disk stress introduces qcow2 corruptions Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2011-11-09 16:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-09 17:02   ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-09 17:35     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-09 19:53       ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-09 20:18       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 20:22         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-09 21:00           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-09 21:01             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-10 10:41               ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-10 16:50                 ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-10 17:59                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-10 18:00                 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-09 20:57         ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-10  8:55       ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-10 17:50         ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-10 17:54         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-12 10:20           ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-12 13:30             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-12 14:36               ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-10 18:27         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-10 18:42           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-10 19:11             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-10 20:06               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-10 20:07                 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-10 21:30           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-11 10:15             ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-11 14:03               ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-11 14:29                 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-11 14:35                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-11 14:44                     ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-11 20:38                       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-12 10:27                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-12 13:39                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-12 14:43                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-12 16:01                       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-12 10:25               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-11-14  9:58                 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-14 10:10                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-15 13:28                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-14 10:16                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-14 10:24                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 11:08                     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-14 11:21                       ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-14 11:29                         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-14 11:34                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 11:37                             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-14 11:51                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 11:55                                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-14 11:56                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 11:58                                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-11-14 12:17                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 11:36                           ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-14 11:32                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-14 14:19                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-15 13:20                     ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-15 13:56                       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-09 19:25 ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-09 23:33   ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues

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