From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/12] block: Introduce "drained begin/end" API
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:39:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <561CDF53.3020404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151013093142.GE4906@noname.str.redhat.com>
On 13/10/2015 11:31, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This would mean that once you've sent an I/O request inside a drain
> section, you have to expect that more internal I/O might be going on
> after the request has completed. If you don't want this, you have to
> issue another bdrv_drain() or use a nested bdrv_drained_begin/end()
> section.
Yes.
> Sounds reasonable enough to me, but I guess this should be explicitly
> documented.
I agree. Perhaps bdrv_drained_begin/end() could be renamed to
bdrv_drain_and_lock() / bdrv_unlock()?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-13 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-12 11:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] block: bdrv_drained_begin/end for transactions on dataplane devices Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/12] aio: Add "is_external" flag for event handlers Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/12] nbd: Mark fd handlers client type as "external" Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/12] dataplane: Mark host notifiers' " Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/12] aio: introduce aio_{disable, enable}_external Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/12] block: Introduce "drained begin/end" API Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 13:59 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-12 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-13 9:31 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-13 10:39 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-10-13 11:12 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/12] block: Add "drained begin/end" for transactional external snapshot Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/12] block: Add "drained begin/end" for transactional backup Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/12] block: Add "drained begin/end" for transactional blockdev-backup Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/12] block: Add "drained begin/end" for internal snapshot Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/12] block: Introduce BlockDriver.bdrv_drain callback Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 14:17 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/12] qed: Implement .bdrv_drain Fam Zheng
2015-10-12 14:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-12 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/12] tests: Add test case for aio_disable_external Fam Zheng
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