From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@dlhnet.de>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iscsi: fix deadlock during login
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:38:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A6179C.5070104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A51A52.4000807@redhat.com>
Am 15.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 15/11/2012 17:13, ronnie sahlberg ha scritto:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Il 15/11/2012 15:57, ronnie sahlberg ha scritto:
>>>> I dont know if we should switch to use synchronous code here.
>>>> It is much nicer if all code is async.
>>>
>>> bdrv_open is generally synchronous, so I think Peter's patch is ok.
>>
>> I was thinking about the case where you disconnect/reconnect a device
>> at runtime. Like swapping the medium in a CDROM.
>> If bdrv_open() is synchronous and blocks for a long time, would that
>> not impact the rest of QEMU?
>
> Yes, it's not optimal, but VCPUs would still run until they request I/O.
> But usually iscsi devices should be non-removable, no? That leaves
> hotplug as the only problematic case.
I guess we need a bdrv_co_open() for the long term.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 14:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iscsi: fix deadlock during login Peter Lieven
2012-11-15 14:57 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-11-15 15:05 ` Peter Lieven
2012-11-15 15:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-15 16:11 ` Peter Lieven
2012-11-15 16:13 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-11-15 16:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-16 10:38 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2012-11-16 17:38 ` Peter Lieven
2012-11-16 17:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-15 18:28 ` Peter Lieven
2012-11-16 7:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-16 9:26 ` Peter Lieven
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